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xuhcc opened this issue Apr 25, 2016 · 5 comments
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Indentation auto-detection for python files #1008

xuhcc opened this issue Apr 25, 2016 · 5 comments
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xuhcc commented Apr 25, 2016 •
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I have "Detect width from file" option checked in preferences. But geany often fails to detect indentation width for some python files, for example:

import unittest


class MyTestCase(unittest.TestCase):

    def test_test(self):
        # test
        # test
        # test
        pass

For this file indentation is set to 8 spaces (should be 4).

Geany 1.27, Arch Linux
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elextr commented Apr 25, 2016

The detection width is set by a heuristic based on a "factored most common" and is not language specific. With a heuristic there will always be situations where it will get it wrong. In particular a language like Python tends to have most indents at a multiple of the minimum, so it is likely to be most at risk.

The most accurate method would be to make it language dependent, especially for Python where indent is syntax.

But that would need support for language specific capabilities to be added via plugins since we do not want to hard code language specific features for all the number of languages we support. That plugin capability has been discussed, but does not exist at the moment.

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I have this problem too.

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Wait no for me its worse and just always does tab indents even when I set it to spaces.

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eht16 commented May 18, 2025

Wait no for me its worse and just always does tab indents even when I set it to spaces.

That sounds like a different issue.
Do you mind opening a new one and describing the problem in more detail with example code to reproduce?

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