Bug 61782

Summary:	QT Editor - tab key should enter a tab
Product:	[Applications] kdevelop	Reporter:	Jon Smirl <jonsmirl>
Component:	QEditor	Assignee:	KDevelop Developers <kdevelop-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	git master
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	RedHat Enterprise Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Jon Smirl 2003-07-28 23:44:23 UTC

Version:           CVS (using KDE KDE 3.1)
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs

Typing the TAB key is not entering a tab into the text with the QTEditor. By default TAB is set to the editor INDENT function.

I think TAB should default to entering a tab character and let the user changing it if they want. I turned off the assignment of TAB to INDENT and TAB still didn't add tabs to my file. Using Ctrl-I does add a tab char.

Actual tab chars are required when editing Makefiles and some other config files.

Comment 1 Harald Fernengel 2003-07-29 16:34:58 UTC

qEditor is designed to behave similar to emacs, so the TAB key will indent by default. 
 
There's a flag (m_tabIndent in qeditor.h) which switches Tab-Indenting off, but afaik it is not 
publically available. If you want this bug fixed, just add a new checkbox to the configuration 
dialog, save the setting and send a patch :)

Comment 2 Jon Smirl 2003-07-29 16:38:31 UTC

I went into the key assignment dialog and set the mapping for TAB to none from
it's default of indent. Shouldn't that have restored the TAB key as entering a
TAB character?

Comment 3 Matt Rogers 2006-03-16 21:35:40 UTC

QEditor has been removed for KDevelop 4 and none of these bugs will be fixed 
between now and then.