[Lazarus] IDE, indentation after inserting from clipboard

[Jürgen Hestermann]

Am 2016-11-28 um 14:50 schrieb Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus:
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 13:38:11 +0100
> Jürgen Hestermann via Lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>
>> In the editor of the IDE, when I put the cursor somewhere and paste multiple lines from the clipboard
>> then only the first line is indented (starts where the cursor is) but all following lines are not indented
>> (start from column 0).
>> For example, if I have this code snippet in the clipboard:
>> case X of
>>      1 :
>> else
>>      end; { of case }
>> and paste it at column 4 then I get
>>      case X of
>>      1:
>> else
>>      end; { of case }
>> instead of
>>      case X of
>>         1 :
>>      else
>>         end; { of case }
>> so I have to indent lines 2-4 manually each time I paste it.
>> Is that how it should be?
>> I would like to have the whole block indented in the same way as the first column.
> Not yet implemented.
Okay. I was not sure whether it can be enabled by some option.

> At the moment pasting at Col>1 pastes the text without reformatting.
> When you paste at Col 1, and you have option 'Codetools/General/On
> paste from clipboard' enabled the IDE will auto indent/unindent the
> pasted text, each line the same amount.
This would not help much as I want to specify the indentation of the
whole block by positioning the cursor somewhere.
I would not have to change the indentation after pasting then.

Thanks for the explanation.