[Geany-devel] [PATCH] Better-looking comments indenting

Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven at xxxxx
Wed Sep 8 15:25:21 UTC 2010


On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 15:32:17 +0100
Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Also if some lines have tab indentation and some spaces then the
> comments could be inserted at the wrong position on some lines. Not
> sure how big an issue this is.

I've just realized, for the tabs & spaces mode this would be completely
broken as 8 spaces are compressed into tabs, e.g. when one line starts
with 4 spaces and the next line starts with a tab.

So it seems the patch implementation is a no-go.

Regards,
Nick



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