- Fixed the issue where indenting a single line would always insert <tab size> spaces when in soft tabbing mode. What should happen instead is that the line is indented to the next tab stop.

src/ace/Document.js

@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ var Document = function(text, mode) {
 
     this.getTabString = function() {
         if (this.getUseSoftTabs()) {
-            return new Array(this.getTabSize()+1).join(" ");
+            return lang.stringRepeat(" ", this.getTabSize());
         } else {
             return "\t";
         }
@@ -545,7 +545,8 @@ var Document = function(text, mode) {
     };
 
     this.indentRows = function(range, indentString) {
-        for (var row=range.start.row; row<= range.end.row; row++) {
+        indentString.replace("\t", this.getTabString());
+        for (var row=range.start.row; row<=range.end.row; row++) {
             this.$insert({row: row, column:0}, indentString);
         }
         this.fireChangeEvent(range.start.row, range.end.row);

src/ace/Editor.js

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ require.def("ace/Editor",
     [
         "ace/ace",
         "ace/lib/event",
+        "ace/lib/lang",
         "ace/TextInput",
         "ace/KeyBinding",
         "ace/Document",
@@ -16,7 +17,7 @@ require.def("ace/Editor",
         "ace/BackgroundTokenizer",
         "ace/Range",
         "ace/MEventEmitter"
-    ], function(ace, event, TextInput, KeyBinding, Document, Search, BackgroundTokenizer, Range, MEventEmitter) {
+    ], function(ace, event, lang, TextInput, KeyBinding, Document, Search, BackgroundTokenizer, Range, MEventEmitter) {
 
 var Editor = function(renderer, doc) {
     var container = renderer.getContainerElement();
@@ -524,14 +525,26 @@ var Editor = function(renderer, doc) {
         this.clearSelection();
     };
 
-    this.blockIndent = function(indentString) {
+    this.indent = function() {
         if (this.$readOnly)
             return;
 
-        var indentString = indentString || this.doc.getTabString();
-        var addedColumns = this.doc.indentRows(this.getSelectionRange(), indentString);
+        if (this.selection.isMultiLine()) {
+            var addedColumns = this.doc.indentRows(this.getSelectionRange(), "\t");
+            this.selection.shiftSelection(addedColumns);
+        } else {
+            if (!this.doc.getUseSoftTabs()) 
+                return this.onTextInput("\t");
+                
+            var cursor = this.doc.remove(this.getSelectionRange());
+            this.clearSelection();
 
-        this.selection.shiftSelection(addedColumns);
+            // compute indent string
+            var indentString = lang.stringRepeat(" ", this.doc.getTabSize() - (cursor.column % this.doc.getTabSize()));
+            var addedColumns = this.doc.indentRows(this.getSelectionRange(), indentString);
+            cursor.column += addedColumns;
+            this.moveCursorToPosition(cursor);
+        }
         this.$updateDesiredColumn();
     };
 

src/ace/commands/DefaultCommands.js

@@ -151,12 +151,7 @@ PluginManager.registerCommand("outdent", function(editor, selection) {
     editor.blockOutdent();
 });
 PluginManager.registerCommand("indent", function(editor, selection) {
-    if (selection.isMultiLine()) {
-        editor.blockIndent();
-    }
-    else {
-        editor.onTextInput("\t");
-    }
+    editor.indent();
 });
 
 });

src/ace/lib/lang.js

@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ require.def("ace/lib/lang", function() {
         return string.split("").reverse().join("");
     };
 
+    lang.stringRepeat = function (string, count) {
+         return new Array(count + 1).join(string);   
+    }
+    
     if (Array.prototype.indexOf) {
         lang.arrayIndexOf = function(array, searchElement) {
             return array.indexOf(searchElement);