[Geany-Users] question

Mon Apr 24 00:16:34 UTC 2017

You need to provide a small actual file that shows the problem so
people can reproduce it. We can't do anything from the description.
With lines which show shifts both ways.  Using pastebin is fine
(clearly with no actual data in it).

Note that monospace isn't usually a font, its an alias for some named
font, so you need to find what that font is to tell if its REALLY
monospace.

Also version of Geany and operating system you are using would be useful.

Cheers
Lex

On 24 April 2017 at 09:07, o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
>> On 2017-04-23 11:31 AM, o1bigtenor wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 9:41 PM, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 22 April 2017 at 12:33, o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 7:45 PM, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> See http://home.gmane.org/ for that sites current situation.  May help
>>>>>> if more people let them know they want Geany archives back, but may
>>>>>> just annoy them if they are trying as hard as possible.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Oh boy - - - I have a complicated question and I had hoped to cruise the
>>>>> archive to see if anyone had talked about any of the aspects before I
>>>>> just
>>>>> dropped it on the list.
>>>>>
>>>>> Given that geany is in the process of being resuscitated what would you
>>>>> suggest as a 'reasonable' course of action?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> To be clear, its only the Geany archive on Gmane thats being
>>>> resuscitated, not Geany itself, don't want people to get the wrong
>>>> idea :)
>>>>
>>>> I'd say if google can't find anything relevant, just ask.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I am using a program called ledger (sometimes known as ledger-cli) with
>>> a text file for my 'recordkeeping' (what most people call accounting).
>>>
>>> I have tried to use both vim (and gvim) and emacs and I think I could
>>> possibly
>>> learn the mountain of pre-wysiwyg codes to use them effectively. Both
>>> suffer,
>>> in my opinion, in that they don't have a search tool that works in
>>> searching for
>>> financial data. Yes they have search tools but their quick use has eluded
>>> me
>>> after quite a number of tries. I only have so much time in my life and
>>> entering
>>> financial information isn't what I want to spend 20% of my life on - -
>>> - training
>>> someone else to use the system I'm presently using WITH these cumbersome
>>> and awkward search tools - - - I'm thinking what I would need is a serious
>>> programmer type - - - and why would they want to work as a bookkeeper
>>> for my business? (This preamble is the why.)
>>>
>>> So now to the issue (the what). When I open a file (text file) in geany
>>> the
>>> physical layout is different than when I open it in vim/emacs (and
>>> seemingly
>>> most of the other text editors I've tried).
>>>
>>> Eg
>>>
>>> 2016.01.03 (2 tab spaces)     Company name
>>> 1 tab space Expense: widgets: 5202.01.02.01    (a number of tab spaces) $
>>> 1.00
>>> 1 tab space Asset: account bank xyw: 1023.01.02.02       (")
>>>         $-1.00
>>>
>>> I am using a mono-spaced font  as I want the decimals to line up in the
>>> right,
>>> the beginning of both Expense and Asset (or whatever else that I'm using)
>>> are
>>> 1 tab space (when I can set things I've been trying to use either 4 or 5
>>> spaces
>>> for 1 tab) of indentation.
>>>
>>> Sometimes there areas many as 6 or 7 Expense listings, there are sometimes
>>> 2 or 3 Asset listings. What is goofy is that when the text is aligned
>>> in Geany - - -
>>> well its NOT in Leafpad, vim or emacs. Switching between Leafpad vim or
>>> emacs does not seem to create this morphing.
>>>
>>> I would like to stay with Geany because geany offers me the option of
>>> creating
>>> routines that I can call at the command line and then (hopefully) insert
>>> what I
>>> have called into the file (looking at using awk at the moment). Why
>>> I'm doing this
>>> is quite a bit more complicated than this delineated 'confusion' so for
>>> now - -
>>> please is there some way to get Geany to look exactly (in layout) like any
>>> of
>>> the other text editors?
>>>
>>> Thanking any of those who care to tackle this in advance!!
>>>
>>
>> TL;DR
>>
>> If things are not aligned, make sure your font is actually mono spaced and
>> that nothing is bold (it messes with character widths). Then adjust the tab
>> width (Document->Set Indent Width) to match the other editors (usually 8
>> chars wide rather than Geany's 4 chars).
>>
>
> Thanks for the response!
>
> I checked - - - its a font called Monospace on my Debian 'stable' read 'Jessie'
> vm. All editors have the tab width set to 4 spaces (after checking previously
> - - - - I did try to find the problem!).
>
> What makes this confusing is that the single tab width at the beginning of the
> line is never different. The 2 tab spaces after the date is almost never an
> issue - - - but the end of the line $ amounts - - - well it shifts - -
> - sometimes
> to the right and sometimes to the left. Doesn't seem to be any consistency
> to it. That's why I'm totally puzzled as to how to fix.
>
> Regards
>
> Dee
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