Re: Changes to auto-indentation in ~2.29.9?

[Julian Lam <julian lam gmail com>]

As it turns out, it seems like this has been standard for quite some time:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtksourceview/commit/?id=186127e1163236b365d658e7121684ccfa16c3c3

Unfortunate, but perhaps an option could be added to allow trailing spaces to be kept?

- Julian

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Julian Lam <julian lam gmail com> wrote:

Hello everybody,

An amateur coder here, using gedit, since it has nice highlighting, auto-tab, etc, but without the learning curve of vim or emacs (I'll get to them someday...)

Anyways, since I upgraded to the Lucid beta, the auto-indent function seems to have slightly changed.
Example: If I was writing at an indent of one tab, and I pressed enter, the indent stays. However, if I press enter again, although the indent is inherited for the third line, the indent of the SECOND line changes to zero.

Prior to lucid, the following lines would ALL inherit the indent level of the previous line, even if I pressed enter multiple times. If I wanted to get rid of the indentation, I could always press "Shift-Enter".

It seems as though because gedit detected an empty line, the auto-indentation is not inherited.

Because I often like to return to previous sections of code to add more, the lack of indent on empty lines is jarring, and makes me waste time (just a tiny bit) indenting back to where I was previously.

Is there any way I can change this behaviour back? Or at least... express my displeasure at how gedit assumes something I did not intend?

Thanks,
Julian Lam
Hons. BMus. III, McMaster University
(416) 843-4323 | http://www.kareeser.com

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Julian Lam
Hons. BMus. III, McMaster University
(416) 843-4323 | http://www.kareeser.com