Titus von der Malsburg <malsburg@posteo.de> writes:

> On 2015-05-28 Thu 04:49, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>> I reralised this morning that there eems to be a bug introduced in one
>> of the last commits which causes repeted editing of source blocks to
>> indent more each time the are edited (C-').
>>
>> Original:
>> ,----
>> | #+begin_src sh
>> | echo 2
>> | #+end_src
>> `----
>>
>> After C-' and back again
>> ,----
>> | #+begin_src sh
>> |   echo 2
>> | #+end_src
>> `----
>>
>> After second C-' and back
>> ,----
>> | #+begin_src sh
>> |     echo 2
>> | #+end_src
>> `----
>>
>> When C-', the indirect buffer has the same indentation as the source
>> block, but when switching back, two more spaces are added.
>
> I can’t reproduce the second indent but I think it’s a bug that there is
> any indentation at all.

I just checked again, and the incremental indentation is there if I set
~org-src-preserve-indentation~ to non-nil.

Rainer

>
> The documentation of `org-edit-special' (C-x ') says:
>
>   Call a special editor for the element at point. …
>
> No mention of indentation or other reformatting of my code.
>
> The same goes for `org-edit-src-exit' (C-c C-c) which says:
>
>   Kill current sub-editing buffer and return to source buffer.
>
> The edit-in-buffer feature should not touch the indentation.  If the
> syntax of the language is sensitive to indentation (e.g. Python) this
> can break the code.  Example:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC python :results output
>   print "test"
> #+END_SRC
>
> is invalid Python syntax.
>
> Also having one function perform two very different actions (edit code
> in separate buffer *and* reformat the code) is poor design.  At least in
> this special case.  When I open the code in a separate buffer but then
> decide not to change it (C-c C-c), I'll end up with extra indentation
> and this will create unnecessary changes when I commit the file in git.
>
>   Titus
>

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