Indent all words selected with the tab command with tkinter-CodePudding

When I use the tkinter text in Python if I select a block of words with the mouse and press the tab command, only the first word will be indented. Is there a way to have all the selected words indented?

CodePudding user response：

One way to achieve this is to get the selection index and insert \t in each line.

here is an example

import tkinter as tk


def tab(event):
    
    try:
        start_line = int(text.index("sel.first")[0])
        last_line = int(text.index("sel.last")[0])
        
        for x in range(start_line, last_line 1):
            text.insert(f"{x}.0", "\t")

        return 'break'

    except tk.TclError:
        pass

root = tk.Tk()

text = tk.Text(root)
text.pack(expand=True, fill="both")
text.bind("<Tab>", tab)

root.mainloop()

text.index("sel.first") returns the index of the first selection and the text.index("sel.last") returns the index of the last selection.