Tuukka Verho wrote: > This is because in Kate the tab key indents instead of inserting a tab > character. If your indentation width is smaller than tab width, Kate > inserts spaces. If indentation width is larger than tab width, > indentation is done with a combination of tabs and spaces. > > You get the desired behaviour if you set the tab width to the same as > the indentation width. > > I agree that this is very confusing. One should be able to set 'indent > with tabs' and indentation width would then be determined by tab width. >
What a marvelous user interface design choice! I see the developers took the precaution of not putting the two settings in the same panel, lest anyone might find out about a way to make kate behave as desired. Wait, I've got another great idea: we should let users enter the desired widths by tapping morse-code on the space bar! Or maybe we could force them to use vi... pffffffffff I really like kate and I've used it for years, but a) this change was really annoying; and b) the solution is sufficiently obscure that I couldn't find it. In the mean time I switched to another editor (geany) that can easily be configured to do what I want, and have no intention of switching back. -- kate ignores settings for TAB https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282234 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdesdk in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
