30 Oct
2022
30 Oct
'22
5:46 a.m.
Dr. Nikolaus Klepp composed on 2022-10-29 07:55 (UTC+0200):
Anno domini 2022 Sat, 29 Oct 00:46:47 -0400 Felix
Miata scripsit:
> Felix Miata composed on 2022-10-27 18:15
(UTC-0400):
> > More and more I find myself needing to
redirect output to a file, but it's often
> > not possible to regenerate the same output needed for sharing in a bug, forum
post
> > or email.
> This attachment is from Mageia 8 with mc-4.8.27, a
type repeatable only by
> thinking ahead, and not running it from a vtty.
I have seen this some years ago with "joe"
and had been correted a long time
ago. IIRC the effect occured when the the text editor had a setting called
somthing called "copy indentaion from previous line" enabled and did not care
if
the text entered was comming from clipboard or entered by the user via keyboard.
So when you paste a line with whitspaces at the beginning of the line this happens:
a) on newline/linebreak, the leading whitespaces of the current line are copied to the
next line.
b) the curser is placed after these whitespaces
c) the next line is entered - whith the leading whitespaces
So you end up with this mess.
Thanks! This gave me idea what to look for. What seems to have happened is MC's
ini file has had support for 0/1 for no/yes replaced by false/true any time its
menu is used to save an old ini file. In the conversion process, it changes
editor_return_does_auto_indent=0
to
editor_return_does_auto_indent=true
Changing it to false seems to be the fix.
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