QPlainTextEdit - change shift+return behaviour

Question

I use a QPlainTextEdit for a code editor that also shows line numbers. But when I press shift+return a the editor makes a break, but the line number don't increases.

I think in html it would just be a <br/> instead of a new <p> tag...

Have a look at the screenshot...

Answer 1

You should probably be using QTextEdit since this is rich text we're talking about.

Override virtual void keyPressEvent ( QKeyEvent * e ). You can call QTextEdit::keyPressEvent in the implementation to delegate non-special cases.