Backspace often deletes two spaces at once

[joschol]

Hitting the backspace key would often delete two spaces (and not only one as it is supposed to). To reproduce this:

1. enter a random word
2. hit space bar TWICE
3. enter another random word
4. move the caret to the beginning of the second word and hit backspace (ONCE)
5. often, the whole gap (containing two spaces) between the words gets deleted (and not only one space)

Windows 8.1, Notepad2 (64-bit) 4.23.04 r4766 (9b680ba)

[zufuliu]

It actually delete spaces up to indentation size (e.g. 4 spaces at a time) to make text aligned to indentation after deleting (though delete with Delete is one space a time).

[zufuliu]

The behavior was implemented from issues #22.

[joschol]

Thanks for the quick clarification! Most of the time, I use Notepad2 for writing and structuring longer texts, the code folding feature is very helpful here, even though it's not code I'm writing. In classic word processors the backspace key is used in another way, of course. Therefore my confusion. I might just set "Indentation size" to "1" or use an older version (4.20.11) before the implementation from issues #22. Anyway, thank for your work! Great program!

[zufuliu]

Then an option could be added to disable this behavior.

[zufuliu]

Added option "Backspace key smart delete spaces." on Tab Settings dialog, feel free to test latest builds (e.g. from https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad2/actions/runs/5018909219).

[joschol]

This works great for me! Thanks a lot!