Auto-indent is only available when editing cells

[edgimar]

The auto-indent feature introduced in PR #963 only applies when editing cells in a notebook. It would be nice if this could also apply to the file-editor interface (e.g. when viewing / editing an entire python file).

[gnestor]

The indentAuto shortcut was removed because it was causing issues for French/German/etc keyboards (see #2535). It would be nice to add it back with a different keymap.

@Carreau Apparently, keymaps like Ctrl-Alt-[ and Cmd-Alt-[ disable French and German keyboards from typing [. What about Cmd-Shift-[? Would that be ok? What aboutCmd-\?

[gnestor]

Cmd-Shift-[ is the shortcut for switching tabs in Chrome...

[Carreau]

The typical reasonig for shortcut is the following:

No shortcut should use Alt (or Shift but in a lesser measure) by default. None. Ever.

Many non-english keyboard need Alt and or Shift to type characters. So Shift and Alt are not available.

Typically, french keyboard use Shift for Numbers. So Cmd-Shift-[ is actually "Cmd-5" on a french keyboard... which is taken, and on French keyboard typing [ actually require pressing Alt-Shift-5... so I'm not even sure how that will conflict resolve, or if this could trigger ghost shortcuts.

Hence I would prefer not to do it. What we can (and maybe should) do, is provide a set of "nice but not enabled by default" keymap that are a click away, and provide a "Querty-layout" extra, "Azerty layout extra", "Cyrillic extra", where we can go as crazy as we like.