[wingide-users] Flaky auto-indent

See comments within the replied text.
 
> On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Stephen Boulet wrote:
> > My auto-indent is a bit wigged out. Here's my preferences file:
> >
> > proj.save-without-asking=true
> > edit.print-paper='Letter'
> > edit.personality='normal'
> > debug.persist-console=true
> > edit.tab-size=4
> > edit.indent-style='tabs-only'
> >
> > When I do:
> >
> > for i in range(10):
> >
> >
> > the cursor is where the vertical bar is when I hit the 
> return key after the
> > colon.
> >
> > I've noticed this happening all of a sudden in the middle 
> of an editing
> > session, after which I can't get it to go back.
> >
> > It happened with the 1.14 build, then went away for a while 
> with the 1.15
> > update but appeared again.
> 
> There are three possible causes of this:
> 
> 1) The most likely cause is that there is some error in the 
> code at some
> point in the file before the cursor

This is a new file. The for loop is the first code.

 
> 2) Another possible cause of this is if there is some text after the
> cursor when you hit return (| is the cursor).  For example 
> starting with:
> 
> for i in range(10):|print i
> 
> Hit return to get:
> 
> for i in range(10):
> |print i

Doesn't work either; <return> just brings the print statement to 
the next line.

> Wing doesn't auto-indent in this case because in general it's 
> better not
> to.  If this is the cause, hitting <tab> should however, 
> auto-indent to
> the right place.



 
> 3) Finally, it's possible that somehow the analysis engine is getting
> confused about your code as you're editing it.  We're not aware of any
> such bug, but one way to test for this is to close and reopen 
> the file.
> If that fixed it, there may be a bug in tracking edits.

Did not fix.
 
> If none of the above seems to reveal anything, try quitting 
> Wing, removing
> the 'cache' directory from your profiles area (~/.wingide on Posix or
> profiles/[username] inside the Wing installation area on Windows), and
> then restarting Wing.  This clears any possibly bad source 
> analysis data.
> If it fixes a "broken" file so auto-indent works again, this 
> would also
> indicate some sort of analysis bug.

Executing a:

  rm -rf ~/.wingide/cache

did not make a difference.

Thanks for your suggestions though.

-- Stephen


> Hope that helps... let us know if not.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Stephan