Bug 292159

Summary: KDevelop always inserts spaces for indentation regardless of settings
Product: [Applications] kdevelop Reporter: Chris Clearwater <chris>
Component: All editorsAssignee: kdevelop-bugs-null
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: critical CC: reavertm, saziel, sgh
Priority: VHI    
Version: git master   
Target Milestone: 4.2.3   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Chris Clearwater 2012-01-22 05:30:25 UTC 
Version:           git master (using KDE 4.7.4) 
OS:                Linux

I set the Editing->Indentation "Indent Using" option to tabulators and KDevelop still always uses spaces.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
press tab

Actual Results:  
inserts spaces

Expected Results:  
inserts tab
Comment 1 Milian Wolff 2012-01-23 08:50:21 UTC 
irc discussion shows it's somehow related to our sourceformatter. i.e. he's the correct kate settings and it works as wanted in e.g. .txt files in kdevelop. but in c++ files somehow not :-/
Comment 2 Belhorma Bendebiche 2012-01-23 19:32:35 UTC 
I can confirm this now happens to me as well after pulling from git master. It happened once a few months back and I was able to fix it by unticking "Override Kate Indentation Mode" in Source Formatter settings, but this no longer has any effect.

As a workaround, you can create your own formatter style that uses tabs for indentation, but I'd still like to see this fixed.
Comment 3 Andreas Pakulat 2012-02-15 16:16:54 UTC 
This is a regression and breaks people's code formatting, so needs to be fixed before the release. Also setting confirmed now, there's been 3 more people in IRC in the last day complaining about this in beta2.
Comment 4 David Nolden 2012-02-15 23:02:57 UTC 
Git commit 3c196e69a92b648e6fe0822bba7f62f6e16a0bd6 by David nolden.
Committed on 16/02/2012 at 00:01.
Pushed by zwabel into branch '1.3'.

Consistenty set the default-value of the "override kate indentation" config to false

M  +2    -2    shell/sourceformattercontroller.cpp

http://commits.kde.org/kdevplatform/3c196e69a92b648e6fe0822bba7f62f6e16a0bd6
Comment 5 Maciej Mrozowski 2014-07-01 16:03:28 UTC 
Well, now it forces tabs regardless the settings :P
kdvelop-4.6.0 Fedora 20 packages.
Comment 6 Maciej Mrozowski 2014-07-01 16:07:29 UTC 
(In reply to comment #5)
> Well, now it forces tabs regardless the settings :P
> kdvelop-4.6.0 Fedora 20 packages.

And after restarting kdevelop, seems to be ok again. Strange things happening.