[Geany] elastic tabstops

Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven at xxxxx
Thu Oct 16 10:47:57 UTC 2008


On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:57:42 +0000 (UTC)
AC <gmane.0vd at gishpuppy.com> wrote:

> What do you guys think of this:
>      http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/
> 
> "The problem is that we're using tabs and spaces to format text for 
> aesthetic reasons rather than treating them semantically - tabs are
> for indenting and aligning text, spaces are for separating keywords."

Sounds interesting.

> I assume it would not be trivial to integrate this into Geany?

We use the Scintilla component for the editor widget, if this supported
elastic tabstops, we could provide an option for them.

Regards,
Nick



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