The example got wiped out, but this is likely a case of our whitespace manager not handling it correctly. We'll likely need to add a special rule of to restore the newline even though we didn't match on it.

Here's another example: https://app.grit.io/studio?key=I3RFrP0kLTyyenhAGihmq

Unfortunately I don't think this is a feasible thing to fix.
To get the desired behavior you'll have to insert the newline, and indent the desired amount in the snippet. Padding is implemented this way as the correct amount to pad is a function of the rewrite, not the source. For example

engine marzano(0.1)
language python

`def $method($args):
    while true:
        $body` => `def $method($args): $body`

should indent $body only once corresponding to the single function scope, but if we tried to calculate based on the source, we would indent for two scopes, first the function, and then the loop.

So in your example I would recommend:

engine marzano(0.1)
language python

`def $method($args): $body` => `def $method($args):
    $body`

I think we could implement this as a post-linearization "healing" stage. I'll do a quick PoC.

I did an attempt here (#194) but there's no obvious place to do this well.

For now I think stick to making output snippets valid-ish Python.