Shortcut Indention trick!

[orange gold]

I just figured out a shortcut to indenting... I know there was some way to do it by going to a menu and finding something like edit > code > re-indent or something... but I just found out today a really fast way to do it...

Press the following: cmd+a, cmd+x, cmd+v. In that order as fast as you wish, you can re-indent all of your code in under half a second, easily!

What is does it... Cmd+a ~ Select all, Cmd+x ~ Copy and delete selected (all), Cmd+v ~ re-paste copied (all) and auto format any pasted code.

Works great, just thought I'd share... noticed it today by accident when copy pasting some un-indented if-statements from another project.

Please share, if you have found any neat shortcuts too! (not hot-keys)

[Duncan C]

Originally Posted by orange gold

I just figured out a shortcut to indenting... I know there was some way to do it by going to a menu and finding something like edit > code > re-indent or something... but I just found out today a really fast way to do it...

Press the following: cmd+a, cmd+x, cmd+v. In that order as fast as you wish, you can re-indent all of your code in under half a second, easily!

What is does it... Cmd+a ~ Select all, Cmd+x ~ Copy and delete selected (all), Cmd+v ~ re-paste copied (all) and auto format any pasted code.

Works great, just thought I'd share... noticed it today by accident when copy pasting some un-indented if-statements from another project.

Please share, if you have found any neat shortcuts too! (not hot-keys)

Actually, in XCode 4, there is a command to re-indent the selection. By default the shortcut is control i.

I used to do what you described, but the control i command re-indents your code without changing the contents of the clipboard.