IDE: Copy/pasting breaks indentation

souk21 · 02-02-2023, 03:47 AM

When copying indented lines without selecting the beginning spaces, indentation get messed up

Meo-Ada Mespotine · 02-02-2023, 04:04 PM

Yeah, it adds indentation of the first line to the next ones.
Very annoying.

Edgemeal · 02-02-2023, 04:46 PM

You likely need to copy the whole line including the prefix spaces. Thats how I always do it for Lua code and works just fine.

Justin · 02-02-2023, 05:11 PM

hmm yeah I guess the indentation should be normalized against the minimum of the start of the selection, and the leftmost non-whitespace, maybe? need to make sure that doesn't have any negative side effects...

Meo-Ada Mespotine · 02-03-2023, 02:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Edgemeal

You likely need to copy the whole line including the prefix spaces. Thats how I always do it for Lua code and works just fine.

If you do textselection via Keyboard, this is more complicated than with mouse.
Especially as the home-key jumps to the beginning of the first character and just a second home-key pressing goes to the start of the line.

Which is great but for textselection, it is annoying.

02-02-2023, 03:47 AM	#1
souk21 Human being with feelings Join Date: Mar 2021 Posts: 713	IDE: Copy/pasting breaks indentation When copying indented lines without selecting the beginning spaces, indentation get messed up

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Meo-Ada Mespotine Human being with feelings Join Date: May 2017 Location: Somewhere over the Rainbow Posts: 6,966	Yeah, it adds indentation of the first line to the next ones. Very annoying. __________________ Use you/she/her.Ultraschall-Api Lua Api4Reaper - ReaGirl - a GuiLib for guis working for blind people

02-02-2023, 04:46 PM	#3
Edgemeal Human being with feelings Join Date: Apr 2016 Location: ASU`ogacihC Posts: 4,138	You likely need to copy the whole line including the prefix spaces. Thats how I always do it for Lua code and works just fine. __________________ * Donate * : Windows software for REAPER

02-02-2023, 05:11 PM	#4
Justin Administrator Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: NYC Posts: 16,783	hmm yeah I guess the indentation should be normalized against the minimum of the start of the selection, and the leftmost non-whitespace, maybe? need to make sure that doesn't have any negative side effects...