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Build Identifier: 20110916-0149 The spaces-for-tabs setting is not working within the Java text editor. Sometimes the editor inserts all tabs rather than spaces, sometimes it inserts spaces until it gets to the starting column of the block, followed by a tab. This happens differently depending on where the cursor is placed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start typing a new method in a java class. public void foo() { 2. Press return after the signature Expected behavior: Expect to see spaces all the way to where you'd expect the cursor to be. Actual behavior: Spaces appear until the starting column of the method, then a tab.
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I don't know if this happens in other perspectives. I opened a PyDev one and started editing a python file and didn't reproduce it when typing a new function; however, I don't typically use Eclipse when I edit python files, so I have not spent very much time working in this perspective. Perhaps if I had, I'd find cases where the insert setting was not honored.
The Java code formatting settings override this. Please check your formatter settings. If you still see the problem then please attach your formatter profile here and reopen the bug.
Thank you kindly! I'm not sure why I wasn't seeing that behavior in earlier versions of eclipse. Maybe one of my plugins interacted with it to prevent that behavior. I use viPlugin, for example.
