Updates:
Status: Invalid
Comment #1 on issue 748 by pekka.klarck: RIDE reformats certain file types
on editing
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=748
First of all, this issue is in wrong issue tracker and thus Invalid.
Second, RIDE doesn't even see the original test data format (it just gets
the test data model from Robot's parsing modules) and thus cannot preserve
it. This has been a design decision and it won't change in the foreseeable
future. Good news is that after you save data once with RIDE, it will be
consistently formatted.
Third, first keyword/setting of a test case is put on the same row as the
test case name in TSV format by design. You normally open these files
otherwise in spreadsheets where this layout takes least space. In the plain
text format the test case name is always on its own row. This stuff could
potentially be configurable, but I don't see that happening in the near
future either.