sublime text new line loses indent

Question

I have a problem that is causing me lots of extra keystrokes in sublime text. When I create a couple of new lines, the indentation is correct. However, if I up arrow back to those new lines, the indentation is gone and I am back at position 0 (happens for all file formats). Am I doing it wrong, is this intended behaviour? I like white space in my code so this is a pain. Recreating: Write function code e.g. ``` function Bob(){ | indent starts here } ``` All good. I then add a couple of new lines, up arrow back to the middle and I get this: ``` function Bob(){ | indent starts here | indent starts here | indent starts here } ``` I would like: ``` function Bob(){ | indent starts here | indent starts here | indent starts here } ``` Any suggestions please - apart from changing my coding style :-) Thanks. Edit: apparently this is not expected behaviour. Preferences and plugins listed below in case they are interfering. User preferences: ``` { "auto_complete": true, "auto_complete_with_fields…

Accepted Answer

Add the following to your preferences and you should be all set:

```
"trim_automatic_white_space": false,
```

The default is `true`, and when set it trims white space added by auto_indent when moving the caret off the line.

sublime text new line loses indent

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