the tab key and editing
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Description
When editing Racket code in DrRacket, when you hit "tab" and the insertion point is in the whitespace at the start of the line, the insertion point moves to the first non-whitespace on the line. I find that I use this a lot to navigate but range-indentation facility (which is used by Rhombus) doesn't do that.
I've made a change here along these lines, but since the range-indentation functionality isn't limited to only inserting whitespace, it isn't clear if this should be done differently (or not at all, or under some disabled-by-default option, or ....?).
Any opinions?
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the proposed changes in the indentation-editing branch and the existing range-indentation behavior used by Rhombus. Determine whether moving the insertion point from leading whitespace to the first non-whitespace character fits the current editing semantics or requires an option. Done means the project has a decided behavior and an agreed implementation scope.
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Assessment
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100