unable to indent / shift right multiple lines of text in textedit

Solution 1:

I don’t think this feature or function is coming back to TextEdit on 10.14 so I’d look to another editor if you need this super useful feature.

I’m a big fan of vi or more technically correct vim in the terminal since it’s free and included with each and every Mac (and because my initial learning curve for that peculiar editor is behind me). If you want a more graphical and super powerful free text editor - go get BBEdit which allows free usage of the core editing functions after the free trial of the licensed portion expires:

• http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit

You’ll spend a little time getting either of these set up, but if you indent regularly - text edit isn’t worth all the time you’ll waste on it without more powerful features. I think the new Xcode beta has this feature from watching the 2018 WWDC videos, but I don’t think that’s released to non-paid developers quite yet.

Also, I would recommend spending a good amount of time learning the bookmark functionality on macOS in terminal app to get the full benefit (or choose and use tmux / screen / docker) to extend and run linux as needed if the Apple tools aren't making you feel super productive to edit and work from the command line (like the command open . to open a finder window from the current working directory).

• https://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux2/tmux-2
• https://support.apple.com/guide/terminal/keyboard-shortcuts-trmlshtcts/mac