Re: [BUG] in last org in indentation of source blocks

[Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>]

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tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes:

> Titus von der Malsburg <malsburg@posteo.de> writes:
>
>> I can’t reproduce the second indent but I think it’s a bug that there is
>> any indentation at all.
>>
>> 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.
>
> Does the variable org-src-preserve-indentation get the behavior you're
> after?

If I set it to nil, I don't have the runway indentation, if I set it to
non-nil, I have the runaway indentation.

But I can't use nil, as I need the indentation for tangling of some
files.

Rainer

>
> hth,
> Tom

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