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

[tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye)]

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?

hth,
Tom
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