Yes, but I don’t just randomly perform the operation when I don’t want to change the indentation.
> Separate from that, have you never fat-fingered the tab, space, backspace or delete keys?
When I’m in insert mode, I look at what I’m writing, so I immediately undo any such accidental edit. Outside insert mode, it’s hard to accidentally change indentation.
> Never deleted one too many whitespace tokens when cleaning up an inadvertent or misdirected paste?
I use indentation-preserving paste, so… no?
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