Tabs arent' replaced with spaces when pasted

[Jens Forsberg]

If I copy the following text from Notepad++ ...

[tab][space[space]***********************************************************
[tab][space[space]*
[tab][space[space][space]V000-VALIDATE SECTION.
[tab][space[space]*
[tab][space[space]***********************************************************

and paste it into the Text Editor in Visual COBOL, the tabs are kept despite having selected "Insert spaces" in Tools - Options - Text Editor - Micro Focus COBOL - Tabs and having checked "Format pasted code" in Tools - Options - Text Editor - Micro Focus COBOL - Formatting.

If I paste the same text into Net Express the tabs are replaced with spaces.

In both Visual COBOL and Net Express the cursor was located at position 1 when I pasted.

I'm using Visual Studio 2019 and Visual COBOL 5.0 with the latest updates. The project type is an INT/GNT project.

[Jens Forsberg]

UPDATE: This is strange indeed. I gave it another try and now the tabs got replaced by spaces ... But now the asterisks got misplaced. The first line looks like this:

[space][space][space][space][space][space][space][space][space][space]*********

which resulted in a design-time error.

[BlackKnight · Accepted solution]

Hi, @Jens Forsberg,

I can confirm that there's an issue with Visual COBOL v5 reading user settings:

User settings are not used by Visual COBOL until you manually open each settings panel under Tools > Options > Text Editor > Micro Focus COBOL individually.

Here's an animation, depicting the issue you mentioned:

That's quite tedious, but Ted John, who's a member of the product team, may have confirmed that this will be solved with version 6.

This thread deals with the same issue, yet a different option setting panel.