[issue41608] IDLE: not remove multiple spaces if not at start of line

E. Paine added the comment: Further clarification on the new behaviour: in the shell whitespace after the prompt (>>>) will not be considered an indent and only have one character deleted at a time. However, on a continuation line, any initial whitespace will be considered an indent and the

[issue41608] IDLE: not remove multiple spaces if not at start of line

Change by E. Paine : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +21048 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/21934 ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue41608] IDLE: not remove multiple spaces if not at start of line

New submission from E. Paine : I could not think of a better title so will attempt to explain myself better here. Currently, the IDLE smart backspace will delete multiple whitespace up to the tab width even if it is not at the start of the line. Consider the following examples (where the | is