Re: Changes to auto-indentation in ~2.29.9?

[Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>]

Hi Julian,

	as you found out the change was intended: we often received the
opposite complaint that the previous behavior led to trailing
whitespaces, which are considered bad style to the point of being marked
in red in git.

Personally I do not use autoindent so I do not have a strong opinion on
this.


	Paolo

On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 13:22 -0400, Julian Lam wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Julian Lam
> Hons. BMus. III, McMaster University
> (416) 843-4323 | http://www.kareeser.com
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