Indentation lost when pasting

[basinilya]

With this plugin enabled, if you paste at the beginning of the line, the pasted text loses its own indentation and inherits the indentation of the previous line.

Looks like a regression to me. I have been using the version from 2011 and never noticed this.

"automatic indentation" is off. No other plugins enabled. Gedit version 3.18.3. Archlinux 64

[kapouer]

Thank you for this bug report. I've noticed that too, but i have not much free time to devote on that plugin, so any help is welcome.

[mesilliac]

Currently there is code to adapt the indentation in text pasted from the clipboard so that it matches the document indentation. This is what is causing this issue, but it seems to be an intended feature. It was previously disabled, but has been reenabled at some point.

I'm actually looking at the code to fix another related bug - when pasting an entire line, the indentation of the next line after pasting is discarded.

A configuration option to turn the clipboard text modification feature on or off would probably help. I could try to fix the clipboard paste indentation issues, but i'm not really sure what the actual behaviour is supposed to be.

[mesilliac]

I made a pull request adding an options dialog which allows the paste functionality to be disabled.

#5

Honestly i think i'd recommend that the paste functionality be disabled by default. It doesn't seem to be part of the stated plugin functionality, and strange problems when pasting from the clipboard are difficult to trace back to this plugin. I had no idea until i actually read the code why this plugin would be messing with my copy-paste.

[dwbapst]

To add to this issue, the addon also has the bizarre effect of stripping out blank lines (repeated carriage returns / line breaks, whatever, I don't really understand the difference, don't shoot me) from pasted content.

For example, if I copy this:

hey

hey

hey

hey

hey

hey

With this addon enabled, I get this pasted:

hey
hey
hey
hey
hey
hey

I'm sure for some people this is a feature, not a bug, but I'm big believer in white-space and commenting in my source code, so its pretty frustrating for me.

@mesilliac I agree, it seems outside of the scope of this function. When I get a chance, I'll try your version.