Detect Indentation setting removes single space on indent

[kwaschny]

• VSCode Version: 1.28.2
• core setting, not extension related

Settings
Detect Indentation: true
Tab Size: 4

Description
Indenting lines that contain a single space (within the indentation whitespaces) will remove the space, i.e. consider the space as part of an indent level.

Background
When minifying HTML output by removing all newlines, a single space is used to separate multiline attributes. Identing present code removes all spaces and breaks it as demonstrated in the above gif.

Proposal
Unless Tab Size is set to 1, a single space (within tabs) should not be considered as indentation level and stay untouched while the Detect Indentation mode is enabled.

[vscodebot]

(Experimental duplicate detection)
Thanks for submitting this issue. Please also check if it is already covered by an existing one, like:

• Convert width of space indentation (#17802)
• indenation (#59180)
• Markdown Preview Style Indent (#56214)
• Feature request: indents to space (from tabs) (#44920)
• Add support for mixed tab/spaces indentation (#5394)

[rebornix]

It's controlled by editor.autoIndent, which attempts to align the indentation when you do Tab. You can turn this option off if it doesn't work as needed.

[kwaschny]

@rebornix Did you test your proposal? Because "editor.autoIndent": false doesn't change the behavior. (tested in 1.36.1)

[rebornix]

@kwaschny good catch ;) It should work with "editor.autoIndent": false .