[Geany-Users] question

[Matthew Brush]

On 2017-04-23 11:31 AM, o1bigtenor wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 9:41 PM, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 22 April 2017 at 12:33, o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 7:45 PM, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> See http://home.gmane.org/ for that sites current situation.  May help
>>>> if more people let them know they want Geany archives back, but may
>>>> just annoy them if they are trying as hard as possible.
>>>>
>>> Oh boy - - - I have a complicated question and I had hoped to cruise the
>>> archive to see if anyone had talked about any of the aspects before I just
>>> dropped it on the list.
>>>
>>> Given that geany is in the process of being resuscitated what would you
>>> suggest as a 'reasonable' course of action?
>>
>> To be clear, its only the Geany archive on Gmane thats being
>> resuscitated, not Geany itself, don't want people to get the wrong
>> idea :)
>>
>> I'd say if google can't find anything relevant, just ask.
>>
>
> I am using a program called ledger (sometimes known as ledger-cli) with
> a text file for my 'recordkeeping' (what most people call accounting).
>
> I have tried to use both vim (and gvim) and emacs and I think I could possibly
> learn the mountain of pre-wysiwyg codes to use them effectively. Both suffer,
> in my opinion, in that they don't have a search tool that works in
> searching for
> financial data. Yes they have search tools but their quick use has eluded me
> after quite a number of tries. I only have so much time in my life and entering
> financial information isn't what I want to spend 20% of my life on - -
> - training
> someone else to use the system I'm presently using WITH these cumbersome
> and awkward search tools - - - I'm thinking what I would need is a serious
> programmer type - - - and why would they want to work as a bookkeeper
> for my business? (This preamble is the why.)
>
> So now to the issue (the what). When I open a file (text file) in geany the
> physical layout is different than when I open it in vim/emacs (and seemingly
> most of the other text editors I've tried).
>
> Eg
>
> 2016.01.03 (2 tab spaces)     Company name
> 1 tab space Expense: widgets: 5202.01.02.01    (a number of tab spaces) $ 1.00
> 1 tab space Asset: account bank xyw: 1023.01.02.02       (")
>         $-1.00
>
> I am using a mono-spaced font  as I want the decimals to line up in the right,
> the beginning of both Expense and Asset (or whatever else that I'm using) are
> 1 tab space (when I can set things I've been trying to use either 4 or 5 spaces
> for 1 tab) of indentation.
>
> Sometimes there areas many as 6 or 7 Expense listings, there are sometimes
> 2 or 3 Asset listings. What is goofy is that when the text is aligned
> in Geany - - -
> well its NOT in Leafpad, vim or emacs. Switching between Leafpad vim or
> emacs does not seem to create this morphing.
>
> I would like to stay with Geany because geany offers me the option of creating
> routines that I can call at the command line and then (hopefully) insert what I
> have called into the file (looking at using awk at the moment). Why
> I'm doing this
> is quite a bit more complicated than this delineated 'confusion' so for now - -
> please is there some way to get Geany to look exactly (in layout) like any of
> the other text editors?
>
> Thanking any of those who care to tackle this in advance!!
>

TL;DR

If things are not aligned, make sure your font is actually mono spaced 
and that nothing is bold (it messes with character widths). Then adjust 
the tab width (Document->Set Indent Width) to match the other editors 
(usually 8 chars wide rather than Geany's 4 chars).

Regards,
Matthew Brush