[Geany] Repeat: Feature-Request: Different DISPLAY and EDIT tab widths / 4 space indent

[Walery Studennikov]

2007/9/10, Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com>:
> On 09/07/2007 04:34:12 PM, Nick Treleaven wrote:
> > I'm not sure how to implement this cleanly. I notice (maybe from a
> > comment on SF.net) that notepad++ supports this:
> >
> Oops, I meant notepad2 (they are quite different apps).
>
> http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

Hi.

Here is an answer from Florian Balmer, author of notepad2:
"http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_SETINDENT"

> 2.0.17 (released July 24, 2007)
>   - Indent size can be specified separately from tab width
>
> This is interesting because it also uses the Scintilla 1.74 editing
> component, like Geany.
>
> On 09/07/2007 09:54:33 AM, Walery Studennikov wrote:
> > In Geany it is VERY inconvenient to use 4-space indentations.
> > If I change TAB width to 4 spaces then all tabs are DISPLAYED
> > as 4 spaces.
> > So, well-formatted documents, created assuming standard 8-space tabs,
> > becomes twisted and hardly readable.
> > So, I can't just set 4-spaces (or any other value besides 8)
> > as tab width in Geany.
> >
> > It will be very convenient if there will be 2 separate settings
> > for DISPLAY and EDIT tab width.
> > So, I can leave DISPLAY TAB WIDTH 8 spaces
> > and set EDIT TAB WIDTH to 4 spaces.

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Walery Studennikov
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