Bug 444647

Summary:	Editor inserting tabs instead of spaces
Product:	[Applications] kdevelop	Reporter:	Aaron Williams <aaronw>
Component:	All editors	Assignee:	kdevelop-bugs-null
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	igorkuo, mail
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.6.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
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Description Aaron Williams 2021-10-30 06:01:20 UTC

I have configured KDevelop to only use spaces rather than tabs and spaces for indentation with an indentation of 4. Even with this setting, KDevelop continues to insert tabs when I hit the tab key twice for indentation. It should only use spaces to follow the coding standard of this project.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Go to Settings->Configure KDevelop
2. Select Editor->Editing
3. Set C style
4. Set Tab widthn to 8 characters, Indentation width to 4 characters then indent using spaces only.
5. Start editing code and hit the tab key twice when it makes sense, a tab is inserted instead of 8 spaces.

Also of note I have multiple KDevelop projects open in different sessions, many of which use a different indentation. Most other projects use an Indentation width of 88 and use Tabulators and Spaces.

OBSERVED RESULT
When indenting to 8 spaces a tab character is inserted

EXPECTED RESULT
8 space characters should be inserted

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Igor Kushnir 2021-10-30 08:31:17 UTC

This bug report describes only configuration inherited from KTextEditor. Please check if the same issue applies to Kate. If so, change Product to frameworks-ktexteditor. Otherwise, this could be an issue with your configured KDevelop source formatter. Configure it to match your preferred code style too (in per-session or per-project settings).

Comment 2 Sven Brauch 2021-10-30 08:37:45 UTC

Another reason might be a special configuration for the file type you are editing. Please try checking that. It's very unlikely that something is broken here.

Comment 3 Aaron Williams 2021-10-30 10:45:57 UTC

The file type was correct (C files).

Comment 4 Aaron Williams 2021-10-30 10:49:48 UTC

What might be confusing KDevelop is the fact that I have multiple sessions active simultaneously with different settings for each session due to the fact that indentation is not an option on a per-project basis like it should be.