#1770 Certain .c files will indent only 1 space instead of 4 on pressing tab

[b2f9h203]

I have attached two .c files and my cpp.properties file.
If I open scite-no-indent-error.c and go to line 4 and press tab, then 4 spaces will be inserted.
But if I open scite-indent-errro.c and do the same, then only 1 space will be inserted.
Expected behavior: in both cases 4 spaces should be inserted.

[Neil Hodgson]

The indentaiton in scite-indent-error.c is inconsistent. Line 2 starts with 4 spaces and line 4 with 5 spaces, and thus line 4 is indented by a single space from line 2. An indentation of a single space appears viable and is chosen. If this is common in your files then indent.auto will not work as you want and you should use fixed indentation settings.

[b2f9h203]

Ah thank you for hinting to indent.auto.
But allow me this one argument: These type of multiline comments are pretty common in C/C++ in general and some editors even autoinsert those asterisks at 5 space indent after the first slash asterisk. In doxygen this style is also the standard style of documenting.
http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/manual/docblocks.html

/**
 * ... text ...
 **/

So I think it would be nice to have it supported.

[Neil Hodgson]

I'll accept a patch for this feature but it isn't something I want so will not be implementing it myself.