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 <[email protected]> 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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