[Geany] Patch: "pref_editor_use_tabs"

Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger at xxxxx
Sun Jan 14 17:39:28 UTC 2007


On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:08:19 +0100, Enrico Tröger
<enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:

> 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.
I just committed your patch with SVN r1186.

Thanks,
Enrico

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