On 2023-01-18 07:47, baughmankr--- via Users wrote:
Until a few weeks ago, the default behavior when using "arrow down" to go to the next line, the cursor would jump to the beginning of the line. Now it goes to the space right underneath the cursor on the previous line. I find this so aggravating, I'm starting to look at new text editors. But I don't want to leave Geany.
As other folks have mentioned, that's how it is supposed to work. And in fact all the GUI editors (vi as well) I've tried do the same.
However, from your description I'd guess that you are expecting to go the beginning of EMPTY lines. Is that the case? That is the expected behavior and what editors generally do, including geany. Cursor goes vertically as far as possible to the same column, but if the line doesn't extend that far, well it won't go straight down. If empty, it must go to the beginning/end of line, which are the same column.
Is it not doing that? Another guess is that you have a bunch of spaces sitting on otherwise empty lines.
You can check this by toggling "Show White Space" in the View menu. If extra whitespace is in the way, you can delete it manually. However, there is a setting to delete whitespace at the ends of lines every time you hit Enter.
Under Preferences/Editor/Features/"Newline strips trailing spaces"
I recommend anyone writing code to set this, it will reduce noise in version control commits.