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    MaDill
    last edited by Aug 3, 2017, 11:21 AM

    In my files I use tabs to indent. When I use column mode and write something the it add spaces at the beginning of the blank line and no tabs. Can this be setup somewhere or is there a workaround? I setup tab=4 and replace by space is not checked.

    Example

    A
    	B
    		C
    
    		X
    	Y
    Z
    

    Start with the column mode there:

    A
    	|B
    	|	C
    	|
    	|	X
    	|Y
    Z
    

    and write something

    A
    	bla|B
    	bla|	C
    	bla|
    	bla|	X
    	bla|Y
    Z
    

    Then in the line, which was blank before it is now <space><space><space><space>bla. Expected is <tab>bla.

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      dail
      last edited by Aug 3, 2017, 1:14 PM

      Hi @MaDill

      I actually submitted a patch to Scintilla a little while back to fix this problem and it was merged into v3.6.7 (released Sept. 2016) of Scintilla. However Notepad++ is still on a much older version of Scintilla, so currently there is no work around that I know of.

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        MaDill
        last edited by Aug 4, 2017, 6:49 AM

        Then let’s hope that N++ update Scintilla some day…

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