[Geany] SVN custom tab width/soft tabs

[Nick Treleaven]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:44:11 +0500
"Walery Studennikov" <despairr at gmail.com> wrote:

> > In the Edit->Preferences dialog, on the Editor tab:
> > Under Indentation first set Width for "indent-width". Then set
> > Type to 'Tabs and Spaces', and below that set 'Hard tab width'
> > for "display-tab-width".
> 
> Well, I set:
>  'Width' -> 4,
>  'Type' -> 'Tabs and Spaces',
>  ''Hard tab width' -> 8,
> 
> But when I press 'Tab' key, cursor indents to 8 characters.
> If I press 'Backspace' after that, it removes 4 characters.
> 
> So, I still can't set different display and indent tab widths :(

Does the status bar say T/S for tabs & spaces, rather than TAB or SP?

Also check the indent/unindent keyboard shortcuts - by default these
are ctrl-i, ctrl-u. Only with the hidden pref use_tab_to_indent set can
you also indent with Tab.

The way it works for me is that indenting/unindenting changes the
indent by 4 spaces, but the total indent is made up out of leading tabs
plus some spaces (once the indent is big enough), the tabs being
equivalent to 8 spaces.

E.g. press indent 3 times - equivalent of 12 spaces:
<TAB><SP><SP><SP><SP>

Unindent twice - so total is now 4:
<SP><SP><SP><SP>

Regards,
Nick