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

[Nick Treleaven]

On 05/08/2007 05:16:26 PM, Enrico Tröger wrote:
> 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?
> > > > [...]
> > 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+Shift+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.

I've added SVN code to remove the indent spaces when pressing backspace  
when spaces are used for indentation, as I think this is more what the  
user would expect. Are there any important cases where this is a  
problem?

Regards,
Nick