On 09/07/2007 09:54:33 AM, Walery Studennikov wrote:
Hello.
I'm very fond of Geany, but there is still one big inconvenience for me (and for most people using 4-spaces indent):
Lyrical digression: The standard indentation width for Perl (see perlstyle) is 4 spaces. Most of the CPAN modules are written using this rule.
In Geany it is VERY inconvenient to use 4-space indentations. If I change TAB width to 4 spaces then all tabs are DISPLAYED as 4 spaces. So, well-formatted documents, created assuming standard 8-space tabs, becomes twisted and hardly readable. So, I can't just set 4-spaces (or any other value besides 8) as tab width in Geany.
It will be very convenient if there will be 2 separate settings for DISPLAY and EDIT tab width.
So, I can leave DISPLAY TAB WIDTH 8 spaces and set EDIT TAB WIDTH to 4 spaces.
Sorry you didn't get a reply last time.
I'm not sure how to implement this cleanly. I notice (maybe from a comment on SF.net) that notepad++ supports this:
2.0.17 (released July 24, 2007) - Indent size can be specified separately from tab width
This is interesting because it also uses the Scintilla 1.74 editing component, like Geany.
I don't have time to work on this, so we need someone to find out how it's done and/or write a patch for any progress on this.
Regards, Nick