Bug 157321

Summary:	Kates makes spaces instead of Tabs
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Thomas Kamps <progger1986>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	cullmann
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Thomas Kamps 2008-02-07 09:25:51 UTC

Version:           3.0.1 (using 4.0.1 (KDE 4.0.1) "release 7.1", compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.22.9-0.4-my

First: the option: "Use spaces instaed of tabs" is disabled.
But Kate makes two spaces instead of one tab when pressing the Tab-key.

Comment 1 Thomas Kamps 2008-02-22 19:51:53 UTC

The problem has to do with with the Settings for indent-depht and tab-width.
When pressing Tab, Kate makes an indent with the given ident-depth and uses as much Tabs as possible.

Exaples:
1. intent-depth 5, tab-width: 2-> When pressing Tab you get 2 tabs and one space
2. indet-depth 6, tab-width: 6 -> 1 tab
3. indet-depth 2, tab-width: 8 -> 2 spaces

Possible solution:
Kate/krwite indents tabs to the given indent-depth; always
And only if "use spaces instead of tabs" is active, kate/kwrite makes n spaces, where n ist the given tab-width.

Comment 2 Christoph Cullmann 2009-04-18 16:16:41 UTC

This problem is away with the new settings for indentation/edit in KDE 4.2's Kate, still there is now the issue of inserting tabs, if you have enforced spaces, but thats Bug 145664.