[Geany] Patch: "pref_editor_use_tabs"

[Enrico Tröger]

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:36:33 -0600, "Jeff Pohlmeyer"
<yetanothergeek at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, list -
>
> I have only been using geany for a couple of days,
> but I am very impressed so far, nice work!
>
> I am a long-time and mostly happy NEdit user, but sadly,
> the last official release was over two years ago and it
> appears that any further development has just about
> stalled completely.
>
> So after much searching for a lightweight and powerful text
> editor I found geany, and it looks like it is *almost*
> exactly what I wanted.
>
> There are still a few things I miss about nedit, but
> hopefully most of these are either some geany features
> I haven't discovered yet, or things I can learn to live
> without, or features that can be easily added. Or maybe
> geany has a better way to accomplish the same tasks!
>
> On of the first things I noticed is that there doesn't seem
> to be a way to indent a block of text using spaces instead
> of tabs.
>
> It looks like someone else has already requested this:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?
> func=detail&aid=1585073&group_id=153444&atid=787794
>
>
> Here is a patch that adds a "pref_editor_use_tabs" option.
> It defaults to TRUE (same as the current behavior) but
> setting it to FALSE will make the editor use spaces instead.
>
> This patch doesn't include the UI, so you will need to edit
> the ~/.geany/geany.conf file manually to enable the option,
> but if the patch is accepted, maybe I can add another checkbox
> to the preferences dialog?

Thanks for the patch. This option was planned but for any reason I
didn't put it on the TODO list. But there are some more changes needed
so that all works. But I will do it soon and also add a GUI option.

Thanks,
Enrico

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