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Bug 65454 - Backspace key doesn't work correctly
Summary: Backspace key doesn't work correctly
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 66187
Alias: None
Product: editor
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Formatting & Indentation (show other bugs)
Version: 5.x
Hardware: PC Windows ME/2000
: P4 blocker (vote)
Assignee: issues@editor
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Reported: 2005-09-29 23:27 UTC by jamejia
Modified: 2007-11-05 13:39 UTC (History)
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Description jamejia 2005-09-29 23:27:37 UTC 
I have unchecked "Expand tabs to spaces" in Tools->Options->Editor->Indentation
menu and set the "Number of spaces to indent" value to 4. While using the
editor, if I press the backspace key to undo a single tab character, the editor
instead of returning 4 (the tab) returns 8 characters.
This happens in the java editor but I guess it may happen for all of the
available editors.
Comment 1 Vitezslav Stejskal 2007-04-16 05:03:02 UTC 
The same problem as in the issue #66187. The 'Number of spaces to indent'
setting is *different* from the 'Tab size' setting. The default value of the
'Tab size' setting is 8. Since the 'Tab size' setting is not easily accessible
people usually mix up those two, which leads to a great confusion.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 66187 ***