[Geany] de-indent: possible bug, and a question

[Enrico Tröger]

On Sun, 6 May 2007 16:35:05 -0400, "John Gabriele" <jmg3000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 5/5/07, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 May 2007 12:23:48 -0400, "John Gabriele"
> > <jmg3000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I've got Geany set to always use spaces (4 space indents).
> > > Autoindentation is on (set to "Advanced").
> > >
> > > At the end of a block, I hit Enter and get the auto-indent, but
> > > then want to back up 4 spaces. Is there a way to delete those
> > > extra 4 spaces without having to hit my backspace key 4 times?
> > >
> > > I was hoping Shift-Tab would do it. But Shift-Tab only moves the
> > > cursor back 4 spaces, leaving those 4 extra spaces still hanging
> > > off the end. (Yes, I have Prefs --> Files tab --> "Strip trailing
> > > spaces" enabled, but still, the behaviour of Shift-Tab doesn't
> > > seem right.)
> > >
> > > I tried Shift-Ctrl-i, but that moved the cursor back only one
> > > space. This seems like a bug (I'd expect it to behave the same as
> > > Shift-Tab).
> >
> > I'm not completely sure what you mean, sorry. Could you send me a
> > little example?
>
> Sure.
>
> I'm working on a Python file. Maybe in some method that's part of a
> class, so I'm already indented by, say, 8 spaces total:
>
> I type: "for i in range(10):" and hit Enter. The next line is indented
> by the usual 4 spaces:
>
> class Foo(object):
>     def foo():
>         for in in range(10):
>             #... I'm here now.
>
> I type some command like "do_something()", then hit Enter. At this
> point, I'm still indented, but I'm done with the "for" statement, and
> want to go back to the indentation level of the foo() method.
>
> class Foo(object):
>     def foo():
>         for in in range(10):
>             do_something()
>         # I want to get back to this indentation level.
>
> Currently, Geany makes me hit the backspace key 4 times to get back
> there. I want a way to hit one key (or Ctrl-some_key) to do it. I
> realize that if I were using tabs, I could just hit backspace once,
> but I'm using spaces exclusively (as many folks do).
Ctrl+Shit+I to decrease current indentation.
Unfortunately, it didn't work correctly until SVN r1514. It was working
only when one is using tabs and not spaces for indentation, now it also
works for spaces only.
So, Ctrl+Shift+I decreases now the indentation by the amount of the tab
width(which can be set in the preferences dialog).

Thanks for reporting.

Regards,
Enrico

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