On Tue, 31 Oct 2023 at 11:42, H via Users <users@lists.geany.org> wrote:
>
> Running geany 1.37. I wanted to make some changes when editing *.yml files so 
> that indents are always two spaces rather than my customary a tab stop of 
> four characters.
>
> I modified the filetypes.yaml file as follows (according to 
> filetype_extensions.conf, *.yaml and *.yml files are treated the same):
>
> [indentation]
> #width=4
> # 0 is spaces, 1 is tabs, 2 is tab & spaces
> #type=1
> #    *.yml 2023-10-30
> width=2
> type=0
>
> After clicking on "Reload Configuration" I expected the above changes to be 
> effective, alas, they are not. Indenting a line in a *.yml file still results 
> in a tab stop of four characters.
>
> Have I missed something to make the changes becoming effective?

Nope, (assuming that you don't have a project open since that
overrides the filetype), but as the indents width and type can be set
per document they are not changed for open documents, or the user
setting would be lost.  So close and re-open the documents you want to
get the new values.

Cheers
Lex

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