Elastic tabstops implementation
Original Reporter info from Mantis: ggeldenhuys
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Reporter name: Graeme Geldenhuys
Original Reporter info from Mantis: ggeldenhuys
- Reporter name: Graeme Geldenhuys
Description:
I posted a message in the mailing list to get some feedback on the idea, but no responses as of yet. Here is a quick summary. Go to the homepage for more details.
I think this is a brilliant idea. I played around with the sample java editor (mentioned on his website) and it formats Object Pascal code so nicely. I'll try and start a implementation - if not for everybody, at least for my personal use. :)
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When developing in a large team, you have to make convention about the
use of tab in source code. This article suggests a better solution:
rather than saying that a tab character (a 'hard tab') will move the
cursor until the cursor's position is a multiple of N characters, we
should say that a tab character is a delimiter between table cells.
This has a nice side effect, since proportional fonts can now be used.
http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/
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Additional information:
http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/
Mantis conversion info:
- Mantis ID: 9650
- OS: Ubuntu Linux
- OS Build: 7.04
- Build: r11831
- Platform: x86
- Version: 0.9.23 (SVN)
- Monitored by: » @martin_frb (Martin Friebe), » ()