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Creating a new task by the request of Daniel Megert. The issue was discovered while testing a fix for bug 243533. The issue was present before the fix, except that item 3 below was introduced by the patch which I believe is correct behavior for pasting spaces. -- Created from Comment -- URL: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=243533 Comment: 5 ... there is still something wrong. Set preferences as described in the description (also assuming that tab/ident width is 4) and consider following case (spaces are represented by dot "."): public class Indent { ....void f() { ........; ....} } 1. Save the file. Editor window tab is not marked with "*". 2. Select and copy to clipboard 5 spaces. Place the cursor just before the semicolon and paste. The spaces are not added. The contents of the editor are not changed, however the editor window tab is marked with "*" indicating that the file changed. 3. Select 2 spaces and copy at the same position. The spaces added. If you use tab settings, pressing a tab in that position would add indentation. I think that if a user explicitly pastes a sequence of spaces he expects that it would be inserted as well.
Works if smart paste is disabled.
The description refers to the description of the other task for setting preferences. Here are the editor preferences used: 1. In Window>Preferences>Java>Editor>Typing uncheck "Tab key adjusts the indentation of the current line". 2. Go to the "formatter preference page" (the easiest to follow the link). Create custom style setting "Tab policy" to "Spaces only" ("Mixed" also got the problem). Apply the style. 3. Edit Java file. Enabling "Show whitespace characters" to see all spaces/tabs might be beneficial.
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant. -- The automated Eclipse Genie.
