Smart Shift
Smart Shift is a minor mode for conveniently shift the line/region to the left/right by the current major mode indentation width.
Installation
Melpa
Once you have setup Melpa you can use package-install command to install. The package name is smart-shift.
Manual
(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/smart-shift")
(require 'smart-shift)
(global-smart-shift-mode 1)Customizing
Smart Shift will infer the indentation level of current major mode, if none of major modes listed below match, use the tab-width as default.
It can also be set to a number explictly.
(setq smart-shift-indentation-level 2)Or, for some major mode we haven't support, add following snippets to your config file. Test it and send a PR.
(eval-after-load 'your-major-mode
'(progn
(add-to-list 'smart-shift-mode-alist
'(major-mode-or-derived-mode . customize-base-offset))))Supported major modes
- lisp-mode
- emacs-lisp-mode
- c-mode
- c++-mode
- objc-mode
- java-mode
- idl-mode
- pike-mode
- awk-mode
- ruby-mode
- python-mode
- swift-mode
- js-mode
- js2-mode
- coffee-mode
- css-mode
- scss-mode
- slim-mode
- html-mode
- web-mode
- sh-mode
- yaml-mode
- text-mode
- markdown-mode
- fundamental-mode
Interactive commands
| Command | Keybinding | Description |
|---|---|---|
| smart-shift-left | C-c [ |
Shift the line or region ARG times to the left. |
| smart-shift-right | C-c ] |
Shift the line or region ARG times to the right. |
If you use the key-chord like me. I strongly recommend you add the following snippets:
(key-chord-define-global "<<" 'smart-shift-left)
(key-chord-define-global ">>" 'smart-shift-right)Contribute
Forks and pull requests are welcome!