On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:21:12 +0200 Joerg Desch jd.vvd@web.de wrote:
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:14:21 +0100 Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven@btinternet.com wrote:
Hi Nick.
I've removed the 'Hard tab width' GUI pref for the 'Tabs and Spaces' indent type.
I'm running a "german" geany. Not sure if you mean the tab width setting inside the editor settings (tab "indentation")?
This is why I removed the GUI setting - it is so confusing for people who don't know the tab compression of spaces ('Tabs AND spaces') indent mode.
This doesn't affect Tabs only or Spaces only indentation.
In case anyone has changed that option, the setting is still read from the configuration file(s).
Why that? If such a user install a new geany, he will get another behaviour of the indentation code. So why not print a warning while migrating an old configuration file and than remove it?
You can't migrate a non-standard *hard* tab width setting.
What I'm really missing are the emacs modelines. My colleague uses tabs (with an width of 4) to indent his code. After adding the corresponding modeline, emacs recognizes his style and all went fine. Now I'm using Geany and I have some trouble with mixing his files with mine. So modelines would definitely a good thing.
This is another subject. Try posting in a new thread.
Regards, Nick