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 does not affect the other indent types). This is because IME it is always 8, and removing it makes the dialogs clearer.
If so, you are right.
There are many people out there using tabs with a width of 4 to get the C indentation. This behaviour can still be setup with the remaining settings.
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?
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.