Re: Indentation of current line or selected blocks in the code editor?

[John W. Eaton]

On 11/07/2017 04:00 PM, Torsten wrote:

> In Octave editor, <Tab> indents line/selection, <Shift>+<Tab> unindents
> line/selection.

I see that tab does indent by a fixed amount when the cursor is before 
the text on the line.  If the cursor is in the middle of the text, it 
inserts spaces at the location of the cursor instead of indenting the 
line (that's the behavior I expect from using Emacs, anyway).

For single lines, shift+tab just moves the cursor back, not the text on 
the line.

For selections it does appear to work, but it is a fixed indent, not 
sensitive to context.

I'm looking for something that will indent the code according to syntax, 
so that the bodies of loops and conditionals will be neatly aligned 
automatically, as a pretty printer would.

jwe