Re: [Beaver-devel] Tab + line break insert

[Leslie Polzer]

On Sat, 31 May 2003 09:52:16 -0400
Michael Terry <address@hidden> wrote:

> Leslie Polzer wrote:
> > It is quite annoying when I edit a language with no auto-indent (esp. HTML)
> > and I am working with my own indents: if I insert a line-break, the whole 
> > indent
> > is gone. It would be good to check for tabs there.
> 
> What are you saying?  You have a line like:
> "<tab><tab>hi"
> and when you press enter at the end, it doesn't start the next line with 
> two tabs?  It should.  It does here for me.
> 
> If that is the problem and you can reproduce it, show me how.
It does not exactly occur with this setup (enter at the end).
It does when you place the cursor in a position apart from the end.
Is this behavior intended? If so, I'd like to make a proposal for
explicit (that is, user) indent removal.

> If that's not the problem, can you be a bit more clear?  What do you 
> mean by language-specific auto-indent.  I thought that preference was 
> global.
Yes, you are right. I got a bit confused by the above behavior.

Leslie