From a3a36aa683c3d0e33a9a379675fc4b75585bf130 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: eidheim <eidheim@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 09:08:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Minor improvement to smart backspace key: tabs are now kept
 if previous line is empty

---
 src/source.cc | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/source.cc b/src/source.cc
index 7532999..88e3339 100644
--- a/src/source.cc
+++ b/src/source.cc
@@ -1768,7 +1768,10 @@ bool Source::View::on_key_press_event_basic(GdkEventKey* key) {
       if(previous_line_end_iter.backward_chars(line.size()+1)) {
         if(!previous_line_end_iter.ends_line()) // For CR+LF
           previous_line_end_iter.backward_char();
-        get_buffer()->erase(previous_line_end_iter, iter);
+        if(previous_line_end_iter.starts_line()) // When previous line is empty, keep tabs in current line
+          get_buffer()->erase(previous_line_end_iter, get_buffer()->get_iter_at_line(iter.get_line()));
+        else
+          get_buffer()->erase(previous_line_end_iter, iter);
         return true;
       }
     }