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Auto indent for empty line

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
emacs-lisp, java
Domain
tooling

Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named. Reproduce the empty-line indentation behavior shown in the linked recording, then trace the relevant lsp-java and Emacs indentation path; done means empty lines receive the intended automatic indentation and the behavior is checked.

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Description

Did there have any method about the auto indent for empty line?
https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-java/assets/7248023/8c7b7772-0d9a-45c4-b750-f5877d50bc4c

Dominant language
Emacs Lisp
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