Qt Creator turns some of my spaces into tabs without any questions/setting breaking indentation. [SOLVED]

flashmozzg

In my program I have something like this:
@ui->plainTextEdit->textCursor().insertText(QString("blabla blablabla very long string");@
I wanted to fit it in one screen so I made it look like this:
@ui->plainTextEdit->textCursor().insertText(QString("blabla blablabla"
. "very long string");@

But no matter what setting I choose/disable (i want to keep tabulation with tabs though)
even if I make it all spaces by hand it makes everything but the last few space - tabs.
And it looks bad on github. I mean even if I make it all spaces, check that it all spaces - as soon as I save file it changes them back to tabs.

JKSH

Hi,

What version of Qt Creator are you using?

I believe the relevant setting for your use-case is

Tools -> Options -> C++ -> Code Style -> Edit... -> General -> Align continuation lines -> With Spaces

(Note: If you don't want to Edit a built-in style, click "Copy..." first to create a new style)

flashmozzg

[quote author="JKSH" date="1411472092"]Hi,

What version of Qt Creator are you using?

I believe the relevant setting for your use-case is

Tools -> Options -> C++ -> Code Style -> Edit... -> General -> Align continuation lines -> With Spaces

(Note: If you don't want to Edit a built-in style, click "Copy..." first to create a new style)[/quote]
Qt Creator 3.2.1

This setting changes only if the few latest chars will be spaces or tabs. I mean it still would do everything in tabs and if it's not enough - use spaces (like 5 five spaces tabs and then 3 spaces after that).

JKSH

So if I understood correctly, you want all spaces, and no tabs?

Set:

Tools -> Options -> C++ -> Code Style -> Edit… -> General -> Tab policy -> Spaces Only
Tools -> Options -> C++ -> Code Style -> Edit… -> General -> Align continuation lines -> With Spaces

Also set:

Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> Behavior -> Tab Policy -> Spaces Only
Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> Behavior -> Align continuation lines -> With Spaces

flashmozzg

[quote author="JKSH" date="1411481739"]So if I understood correctly, you want all spaces, and no tabs?

Set:

Tools -> Options -> C++ -> Code Style -> Edit… -> General -> Tab policy -> Spaces Only
*Tools -> Options -> C++ -> Code Style -> Edit… -> General -> Align continuation lines -> With Spaces

Also set:

Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> Behavior -> Tab Policy -> Spaces Only
Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> Behavior -> Align continuation lines -> With Spaces[/quote]

No. I want to keep tabs for code tabulation. I want to anything besides that (especially if it's needed for good looking code align) to use spaces (so that would be same with different tab settings).

Here, I copied before and after to pastebin (check raw):
http://pastebin.com/HbYVigSq

I want to add that using auto-indentation (ctrl+i) and overall - it makes it as i want BUT for some reason after save it becomes wrong!

andreyc

Have you tried to disable ?

Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> Behavior -> Cleanups Upon Saving

flashmozzg

[quote author="andreyc" date="1411484744"]Have you tried to disable ?

Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> Behavior -> Cleanups Upon Saving[/quote]

Thanks! That helped! Hope it doesn't disable/break some of other features I used too without me knowing.