TAB don't work dialog displayed with spaces as indention

[deathaxe]

I just tried to play around with https://github.com/sublimehq/Packages/pull/1126 when I found PackageDev complaining about using TABS for indention doesn't work again and again, each time I click into the view.

The fact is: The file uses 4 spaces for indention. Even a call to "Convert tabs to spaces" does not help.

[ryboe]

With this setting, you can see tabs and spaces:

"draw_white_space": "all"

It can help you find any tabs that might've snuck in.

[FichteFoll]

The code internally only checks for the "translate_tabs_to_spaces" setting, iirc. Can you check what the value of that is in your scenario?

[deathaxe]

With this setting, you can see tabs and spaces:

Everyone knows that. 😉

Can you check what the value of that is in your scenario?

My global value in Preferences is true

Query view setting from console also shows true

>>> view.settings().get("translate_tabs_to_spaces")
True

Seems to be an temporary effect. To check that, I added some debug messages to the SyntaxTestHighlighterListener's methods.

With one view open, which contains the syntax_test_git_tag, I closed and restarted ST. It contains the following output without error message. Everything seems ok.

is_applicatable(settings_id : 6) : translate_tabs_to_spaces True
__init__(view_id: 14, settings_id : 6) : translate_tabs_to_spaces True
is_applicatable(settings_id : 6) : translate_tabs_to_spaces True
is_applicatable(settings_id : 6) : translate_tabs_to_spaces True
is_applicatable(settings_id : 6) : translate_tabs_to_spaces True
is_applicatable(settings_id : 6) : translate_tabs_to_spaces True
is_applicatable(settings_id : 6) : translate_tabs_to_spaces True
is_applicatable(settings_id : 6) : translate_tabs_to_spaces True
is_applicatable(settings_id : 6) : translate_tabs_to_spaces True

If I now click into the console, the error dialog is displayed and the following lines are added to console.

is_applicatable(settings_id : 6) : translate_tabs_to_spaces False
__del__(view_id: 14, settings_id : 6) : translate_tabs_to_spaces False
is_applicatable(settings_id : 6) : translate_tabs_to_spaces False
error: Syntax tests do not work properly with tabs as indentation.

You MUST use spaces!
is_applicatable(settings_id : 6) : translate_tabs_to_spaces False
is_applicatable(settings_id : 6) : translate_tabs_to_spaces True
__init__(view_id: 14, settings_id : 6) : translate_tabs_to_spaces True
is_applicatable(settings_id : 6) : translate_tabs_to_spaces True
is_applicatable(settings_id : 6) : translate_tabs_to_spaces True
is_applicatable(settings_id : 6) : translate_tabs_to_spaces True
is_applicatable(settings_id : 6) : translate_tabs_to_spaces True
is_applicatable(settings_id : 6) : translate_tabs_to_spaces True

Seems something is temporarily changing the translate_tabs_to_spaces setting, which causes the ViewEventListener to be deleted.

... wait ... 🤔 ... 🤔 ... sounds known ...

I guess I found the culprit! It's TabNukerNuker. This bastard modifies this setting temporarily causing the EventListener object to be destroyed as it is no longer valid.

The error disappeared as soon as I disabled it.

As ST crashed everything and destroyed my whole preferences during the last update, I did not disable all obsolete packages, yet.