[FR]: Enhance the indentation logic

[past-gen]

• Add an option to insert the preferred indentation character at the cursor(s) position, unless currently in-selection. This would be extremely useful for formatting string patterns or manually aligning variables or comments for... aesthetic purposes, while not interfering with the intentional line(s) indentation process:

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• Make indentation detection within code blocks a tad-bit smarter:

  • It tends to fail when a new (first) line is added to a non-empty block using the 'Enter' key
  • (Ctrl/Shift)+Enter should behave the same way at the very beginning of a non-empty line as it does at the end. Currently, it treats the line as an empty one and does not insert any indentations.
    UPD.1: After giving it some thought, I can see how it could be useful to visually separate lines without leaving trailing spaces, so no pressure here.
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It's not exactly related, but I find it really inconvenient that, if you put the cursor at the start of a line and press Ctrl+BS, it will delete not only the new-line character, but whatever was aligned to it on the previous line, too. ( The first vid partially catches my struggle )

Can you make it less greedy, please? Perhaps, It'd be a good idea to only allow \s characters in such situations.

[neurocyte]

if you put the cursor at the start of a line and press Ctrl+BS, it will delete not only the new-line character, but whatever was aligned to it on the previous line, too. ( The first vid partially catches my struggle )

Can you make it less greedy, please?

Fixed

[past-gen]

@neurocyte could Ctrl+Del be made less greedy as well? Currently, along with whitespaces it erases the opening characters of quotes and brackets; if they're empty - closing ones too. It also grabs new-line, which isn't exactly desirable when cleaning up trailing whitespaces and want to preserve vertical line indentations.

Apologies for not mentioning this initially, I was so caught up with the indentation issue that it completely escaped my mind until now.

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UPD.1 Actually, the behavior of Ctrl+{Del|BS} seems to be the same for most \W+ sequences. Other than the `, which isn't considered a quote for some reason, and is therefore removed with Ctrl+BS and ignored by Ctrl+Del. Or one of these, maybe: #$%^_+~

UPD.2 The more I look at it, the more it seems to be related to the navigation logic in it's core, as it uses the delete_word_ actions with Ctrl+. If it is intended to work like that and you're totally happy with it, I understand, and would like to ask you once again for: #445