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/*!
    \page creator-indenting-code.html
    \previouspage creator-how-tos.html

    \ingroup creator-how-to-edit

    \title Indent text or code

    When you type text or code, it is indented automatically according to the
    selected text editor or code style preferences. Select a block to indent it when
    you select \key Tab. Select \key {Shift+Tab} to decrease the indentation.

    \section1 Don't detect indentation settings

    When you open a document, the editor tries to automatically detect if it uses tabs or
    spaces for indentation and the indentation width, by inspecting its contents.
    If the automatic detection fails, the default setting is used.

    To turn off the automatic detection of indentation settings, go to
    \preferences > \uicontrol {Text Editor} > \uicontrol Behavior
    and clear \uicontrol {Auto detect}.

    \image {qtcreator-preferences-texteditor-behavior-indentation.webp} {Indentation in the Behavior tab in Text Editor preferences}

    \section1 Fix indentation in an open file

    To fix the indentation settings for the file currently open in the editor, select a
    different setting with \uicontrol {Spaces} > \uicontrol {Document Settings} or
    \uicontrol {Tabs} > \uicontrol {Document Settings} on the editor toolbar.

    To fix the indentation in the file currently open in the editor:

    \list
        \li On the editor toolbar, select \uicontrol {Spaces} or \uicontrol {Tabs}, and then select
            \uicontrol {Auto-indent Selection} to automatically indent the
            selected text using the current settings.
        \li Go to \uicontrol Edit > \uicontrol Advanced, and select an
            indentation option or use \l{Keyboard shortcuts}{keyboard shortcuts}.
    \endlist

    \section2 Indentation options

    \list
        \li To automatically indent the highlighted text, select
            \uicontrol {Auto-indent Selection} or select \key {Ctrl+I}.
        \li To automatically format the highlighted text, select
            \uicontrol {Auto-format Selection} or select \key {Ctrl+;}.
        \li To adjust the wrapping of the selected paragraph, select
            \uicontrol {Rewrap Paragraph} or select \key {Ctrl+E}
            followed by \key R.
        \li To toggle text wrapping, select \uicontrol {Enable Text Wrapping}
             or select \key {Ctrl+E} followed by \key {Ctrl+W}.
        \li To visualize whitespace in the editor, select
            \uicontrol {Visualize Whitespace} or select \key {Ctrl+E}
            followed by \key {Ctrl+V}.
        \li To clear all whitespace characters from the currently open file,
            select \uicontrol {Clean Whitespace}.
    \endlist

    \section1 Automatically fix indentation upon file save

    To automatically fix indentation according to the indentation settings
    when you save the file, go to \preferences > \uicontrol {Text Editor} >
    \uicontrol Behavior > \uicontrol {Clean whitespace} and select
    \uicontrol {Clean indentation}. Select
    \uicontrol {Skip clean whitespace for file types} to
    exclude the specified file types.

    \image {qtcreator-preferences-texteditor-behavior.webp} {Behavior tab in Text Editor preferences}

    \section1 Show whitespace in editor

    To visualize whitespace in the editor, go to \preferences >
    \uicontrol {Text Editor} > \uicontrol Display >
    \uicontrol {Visualize whitespace}.

    To visualize indentation, select \uicontrol {Visualize Indent}. To adjust the
    color of the visualization, change the value of the Visual Whitespace setting
    of the editor color scheme in \uicontrol {Font & Colors}.

    \image {qtcreator-preferences-text-editor-display.webp} {Display tab in Text Editor preferences}

    \section1 Display right margin

    To help you keep line length at a particular number of characters, set the
    number of characters in \uicontrol {Display right margin at column}.
    To use a different color for the margin area, select
    \uicontrol {Tint whole margin area}. Clear it to show
    the margin as a vertical line.

    To use a context-specific margin when available, select
    \uicontrol {Use context-specific margin}.
    Then, use the \l{ClangFormat Style Options}{ClangFormat} \c ColumnLimit
    option to set the margin, for example.

    \sa {C++ code style}, {Specify Qt Quick code style}, {Behavior},
    {Keyboard shortcuts}
*/
