On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:25:11 +0200 Joerg Desch jd.vvd@web.de wrote:
After using Geany for a while, I run into trouble with the Geanys philosophy of indentation.
Geany use the tab key and tab character to do its indentation. The
You can also use Ctrl-I/Ctrl-U - see the keybindings preferences.
tab with is setup globally for all types of files.
Whats the reason for using a tab to indent a line?
Under Edit->Preferences, editor tab, indentation frame, set Type to Spaces and this should do what you want. The 'Tab width' pref should be renamed to 'Indent width', as it works for spaces too.
Is it possible to tell Geany to indent using an "indent width" (on a filetype base!) and than (optionally) replace multiple spaces with tabs?
We could add a filetype-based indent width, a project-based indent width, and maybe an auto-detect indent width preference. Patches welcome.
In SVN there's a 'Document->Replace spaces by tabs' option.
Regards, Nick