[Geany] RFC: removed Tabs and Spaces 'Hard tab width' pref

Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven at xxxxx
Fri Apr 30 12:08:15 UTC 2010


On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:25:25 +0200
Joerg Desch <jd.vvd at web.de> wrote:

> > > Why that? If such a user install a new geany, he will get another
> > > behaviour of the indentation code. So why not print a warning while
> > > migrating an old configuration file and than remove it?
> > 
> > You can't migrate a non-standard *hard* tab width setting.
> 
> I think I don't understand what are planing to do. Do you want to
> silently use the old "non-standard *hard* tab width setting"? IMO this
> isn't a good idea. So, if you ignore this old seting, it shouldn't be
> ignored silently. 

OK, you're right - I'll add a warning. Thanks for the feedback ;-)

Regards,
Nick



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