On 2023-01-18 07:47, baughmankr--- via Users wrote:
Until a few weeks ago, the default behavior when using "arrow down" to go to
the next line, the cursor would jump to the beginning of the line. Now it goes to the
space right underneath the cursor on the previous line. I find this so aggravating, I'm
starting to look at new text editors. But I don't want to leave Geany.
As other folks have mentioned, that's how it is supposed to work. And in fact
all the GUI editors (vi as well) I've tried do the same.
However, from your description I'd guess that you are expecting to go the
beginning of EMPTY lines. Is that the case? That is the expected behavior and
what editors generally do, including geany. Cursor goes vertically as far as
possible to the same column, but if the line doesn't extend that far, well it
won't go straight down. If empty, it must go to the beginning/end of line,
which are the same column.
Is it not doing that? Another guess is that you have a bunch of spaces sitting
on otherwise empty lines.
You can check this by toggling "Show White Space" in the View menu. If extra
whitespace is in the way, you can delete it manually. However, there is a
setting to delete whitespace at the ends of lines every time you hit Enter.
Under Preferences/Editor/Features/"Newline strips trailing spaces"
I recommend anyone writing code to set this, it will reduce noise in version
control commits.
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