I've had an odd problem with the LyX-Code paragraph environment for
the past few LyX versions (since 1.1.4, perhaps?).

When I import (or paste) ASCII text into any environment, a sequence
of N spaces preceding text is shown on the screen as N-1 (blue)
protected blanks followed by one ordinary space.  Odd but OK.

If I look at the DVI output for this imported text in a Standard
paragraph environment, the protected blanks remain protected
(i.e. they indent).  However, if I change the paragraph format to
LyX-Code, the screen display still shows protected blanks, but all
protected blanks have been removed in the DVI output.

(If I *type* protected blanks in the LyX-Code environment, they don't
show up as blue protected blanks on the screen, and they work properly
in the DVI output; i.e. they indent.)

I'm currently using LyX 1.1.6pre1 with tetex-latex-1.0.6-11, but this
behaviour has persisted over several previous LyX versions.

The behaviour is puzzling, because it is roughly reversed from the
expected behaviour.  With the source code documentation I'm working on
at the moment, however, it's extremely annoying because I have to
extensively edit all code I import (delete the "protected blanks" and
replace them with ordinary spaces).  Any ideas?

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