unindent keyboard shortcut not working in kate

[Christophe Dumez]

I'm using latest dapper (AMD64), KDE3.5 and kate. I'm using kate often and there
are some things that don't work : I decided to report it.

- the keyboard shortcut for unindent : ctrl+MAJ+I is not working on my computer
(note: I have got a french keyboard and I'm using fr-latin9 layout), whereas the
indent keyboard shortcut is working (ctrl+I)

- "Suppress indentation" in the tools menu is not working as I thought it would
(maybe I'm wrong). It only suppress "white spaces" and not tabulations ("\t").

[Noah Medling (noah-medling)]

On Edgy (AMD64) with KDE 3..5 and Kate 2.5.5 (package version 3.5.5-0ubuntu3)

The keyboard shortcuts for indent (CTRL+I) and unindent (CTRL+SHIFT+I) work for me. I have a US English keyboard, though.

I don't have a menu entry labeled "Suppress Indentation" anywhere in the Kate menu structure.

[Ryan Zeigler (rzeigler)]

For me, ctrl+I does indent, however, ctrl+shift+I does not unindent in Edgy. I have a US english keyboard.

[Ryan Zeigler (rzeigler)]

I just discovered this which seems to resolve the problem for me.
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80837
Something about Kopete hijacking the ctrl+shift+I key and getting priority since it is in the system tray.

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

The kopete shortcut should probably be changed so that it doesn't hijack kate's shortcut (which is also used in any program that uses a katepart such as kdevelop). The kopete shortcut is a global shortcut for "read message."

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

got any better one? i suppose ctrl+shift+r might work, if it's not assigned to anything else.

[Juan Carlos Torres (jucato)]

Ctrl+Shift+R is used in Konqueror for Close Current View. Probably Ctrl+Shift+M.

Filed an upstream bug and linked to it.

[Nicolas Dumoulin (nicolas-dumoulin)]

I think that Crtl+Shift+Char shortcuts doesn't suite for global shortcuts. Ctrl+Alt could be more relevant, as for klipper for example.

Doesn't a recommandation exist for this choice ?

[animimotus (animimotus)]

This bug is very incapacitating how what to develop with Kate :o

(low) Bug #26936, first reported on 2005-12-11 by Christophe Dumez

Two years and we waiting always for !

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

I found out that this was due to a conflict with Kopete. Apparently it has a similar keyboard shortcut and indent works when Kopete is shut down.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Is this still an issue in KDE 4/Kubuntu Intrepid?

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

I can confirm this with KDE 4.1.3 in Intrepid.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Fixed w/ KDE 4.8.