Misunderstood IDE behaviour

[OldSurferDude]

(Windows 16, 64 bit)
I want to add a line between two lines of code. I position the cursor at the beginning (extreme left) of the line. I press enter, then up arrow then . brief pause The cursor repositions itself at the beginning of the new blank line. I press tab again and brief pause. Now the cursor is positioned at the beginning of the subsequent line.

Now, if I position the cursor at the beginning (extreme left) of the line. I press enter, then I can type the code I want but then must press home, then tab to get the code positioned where I want it.

(windows 10 64 bit)

Is this intentional? What is the thinking here? What do the almighty IDE designers expect one to do when a line is to be inserted?

OSD

[weshowe]

I have no idea what would be different, but I am running windows 10 here.
But I can position on a line start, press enter and then as many tabs as I want, my cursor just moves right two spaces per tab press. This sounds like what you expected to happen, and it does here.
I will watch this and see if someone smarter than I knows the answer.

• Wes

[ptillisch]

Hi @OldSurferDude. This bug is being tracked by the Arduino IDE developers here:

Cursor randomly jumps to beginning of line

I'll provide instructions for the simple workaround that was discovered by an Arduino forum member:

1. Open the "Command Palette" via the Ctrl+Shift+P (Command+Shift+P for macOS users) keyboard shortcut.
2. Select the "Preferences: Open Settings (UI)" command.
3. A "Preferences" tab will now open in the Arduino IDE main panel. In the "Search Settings" field, type editor.trimAutoWhitespace
4. Uncheck the checkbox next to "☑ Remove trailing auto inserted whitespace."
5. Click the X icon on the "Preferences" tab.

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Please let me know if you have any questions or problems while following those instructions.

[OldSurferDude]

Thanks for checking, Wes!

Are there options that we have set differently? eg. "editor quick suggestions" Mine is checked

@ptillisch

files.trimAutoWhitespace

Thanks! that seems to work, although the search was for trimAutoWhitespace not files.trimAutoWhitespace

Thanks again!

OSD

[ptillisch]

@OldSurferDude

the search was for trimAutoWhitespace not files.trimAutoWhitespace

Thanks for pointing out that error! I apologize for any confusion my typo might have caused.

I meant to write editor.trimAutoWhitespace (which is the full ID of the setting), but trimAutoWhitespace alone will work just fine.