I don't know how long this has been going on, but when I'm editing code in the Split view mode, the editor likes to gobble/eat white space characters if I don't keep typing quickly, so I end up with undented code lines that look like:

valfoo=42

Is this a recent IDE regression? I'm running Android Studio Giraffe | 2022.3.1 Patch 1. Or maybe some evil combination of settings that I haven't sussed out? It's driving me nuts.

if you have your editor set to trim trailing whitespace on save, then that has happened since forever

Do you only experience this when split view mode is on? I’ve exprienced this from time to time but never figured out what was it that triggered it

in my experience it's something like preview triggering autosave triggering space removal

That sounds plausible, yes. Since I don’t often get it, but when I do it’s very persistent. It probably goes away as I go to other files without previews and I never noticed it!

Yeah, only in split mode. I'm grateful I figured that much out. I just use split mode to see my previews selectively now. I miss the old, but this works, i guess

you can disable preview live updates or you can disable whitespace-removal

Hmm not sure Preview should trigger the auto save. It’s more the reverse where auto save triggers Preview to rebuild. I can try to repro next week if you file a bug.