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Leaving in leading whitespace when breaking text line
Submitted by rps on Saturday, 21 May, 2011 - 11:33
I'm a new jEdit user and have just run across a "feature" that is causing me problems. When I position into a line of text containing space characters, with the cursor positioned immediately before a space charcter and then hit ENTER to break the line, the leading spaces (regardless of how many space characters there are) are removed from the new line. I work in a transaction processing environment and often have to parse message trace logs where space characters are just as important as any other character. How to I get jEdit to leave the spaces in the new line?
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by Robert Schwenn on Sat, 21/05/2011 - 21:51
By default the ENTER key is bound to the action "Insert Newline and Indent". The Indentation justifies the leading white spaces. To change this behavior, goto "Utilities -> Global Options -> Shortcuts", look for the action "Insert Newline" and re-assign the ENTER key, that's all.

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