Achieving tab-like navigation with spaces indentation

Question

I am collaborating on a Python project, using PyCharm. It is space indented and I have been using only tab indentation so far. However, after switching to space indentation I am no longer able to navigate efficiently. To navigate one indentation level back, I need to press left arrow four times now, which I find very frustrating. Note that I mean navigation through an indentation level at a time (4 spaces) and not going to the beginning of the line.

My questions are:

• Can I set up navigation with space indented file in PyCharm to behave like it does with tabs (single arrow tap for one indentation level, single backspace for one indent deleted)?
• If not, is there a shortcut or a way to set up one to navigate to a previous indentation level?
• Are you aware of any other python IDEs that can handle space indentation in the way described?

I hope you can help.

Answer 1

To toggle between tabs and spaces:

On the main menu, choose Edit | Convert Indents , and then choose To Spaces or To Tabs respectively.

When you clone, download or in any other way start working on a project, you can convert spaces to tabs and stick with yours navigation. When you are done, you can convert tabs back to spaces so you don't break yours team coding habits.

Answer 2

For changing the key of indention I think you could change that from File -> Setting -> Keymap then search for indent selection.