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I am testing IDE 9.2.1 for OSX coming from IDE 8.5

I am having a problem with tabbing & dedenting and not sure if it’s just me.

  1. If I select a group of text and hit tab, the text is correctly indented. However I can not highlight the same text, or any text anywhere for that matter and Dedent it from the Code => Dedent menu. All the Indent, Dedent and tabify options are greyed out.

  1. For some reason I can not get my tab/indent preferences to override the tabs in an existing file.
    I have the tab indent set to 4 spaces. If I open a txt file that for some reason has a tab at 20+ characters there is nothing I can do to make 1 tab/indent be equal to 4 spaces.

I have tried creating a new file and entering some text. I named that file new.txt the file has proper indenting.

Then I copy text from my old.txt with odd indenting. paste the text into new.txt and the indenting is correct. So far so good.

However, if I then close old.txt and file => saveas new.txt as old.txt the tab stops revert to the prev incorrect positions from old.txt even tho I am saving over the top of it.

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The menu issue is a separate issue which I believe is resolved in 9.3. I’m not seeing it any way. You can get 9.3 from our downloads website if you want to try it: http://downloads.activestate.com/Komodo/nightly/komodoide/latest-master/

Indent/Dedent should work fine through Tab and Shift + Tab respectively.

For the issue where you can’t change your indent settings for a file, this must be because you set it in that file at some point. File level prefs reign supreme in Komodo. There are two options:

  1. For every file you notice this problem, change the preferences for the file: Edit menu > Current File Preferences.
  2. Clear all file level prefs by deleting doc-state.xmlc (while Komodo is not running) from ~/Library/Application Support/KomodoIDE/9.2/

Let us know this your still have issues.

-Carey

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Thanks, upgrading to 9.3 solved all of the problems in this post. No other changes were necessary.

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my indent-dedent with the Tab key is all jacked up again… with the latest update to 9.3.2
I cannot tab a block of code forward or backward consistently.

single lines seem to work… but a multi-line selection.no.

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Does the problem go away when you do Help > Troubleshooting > Reset File Preferences and restart Komodo?

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No. Tired resetting UI Prefs too… didn’t work.

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Okay, well you’ve given us very little to go on other than “it doesn’t work”. Do you have a sample file we could look at? Some specific details as to what/where exactly you’re experiencing the problem? The more information you provide, the more likely it is that we can help diagnose the problem.

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works fine in Sublime. Bye.

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Nothing to discuss there. For anyone who’ll be experiencing the same problem - please create a new topic :smiley: