[Geany] Problem: about tabs and indentation.

[Joerg Desch]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:51:44 +0100
Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:

> > void foo ( int i )
> > {
> >     if ( i>0 )
> >         [next_command]
> 
> OK, I think I understand. So if tab width is set to 8, then in the
> example above it would use 4 spaces for the if command, but for the
> next command it would use a tab instead of 8 spaces.

Right. That's it.


> > It's just for consistency reasons. If tabs are enabled, they should
> > be used.
> 
> This is the point that confused me before, Geany's tab Indent Type
> setting makes tabs = indentation. You would want a different setting
> which applies when the space Indent Type is enabled - something like
> 'Compress spaces to tabs'.

Right.


> > Geany currently configures tabs with SCI_SETTABWIDTH. To separate tabs
> > and indentation, the configuration dialog should ask for the
> > indentation width and set SCI_SETINDENT with this value.
> 
> It might not be this simple, Geany's codebase expects tabs to mean
> indentation width. But I think this is worth implementing. I'll add a
> TODO item.

Thanks. That was my thought too. To start contributing to Geany, this
hack would be to big. I think I start with writing a plugin. ;-)

> > would be nice, if the configuration dialog would support
> > SCI_SETTABINDENTS(bool) too.
> 
> Why?

Just be to compatible with the current way of doing indents.

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