+1 -----Original Message----- From: Valentin Kipiatkov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 11:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Eap-list] Smart tabs?
Actually, we are just not aware of how many users would like this feature (considering that would take some efforts to implement it). I see 2 messages in the list that support this idea. Anyone else? Best regards, Valentin Kipiatkov ----------------------------------------------------------- IntelliJ Software, http://www.intellij.com/ "Develop with pleasure" ----------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Singer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 8:17 PM Subject: Re: [Eap-list] Smart tabs? > We need this! It could be one of the outstanding small features in IDEA, > that no other IDE or editor has and you would not like to live without it > any more if you had them in the past. > > IntelliJ, please give it a try! I believe, it can't be that difficult to > detect wrapped lines. > > Tom > > > At 10:42 14.02.02 -0500, you wrote: > >+1! I think your idea, Tom, is absolutely excellent. Right on! I think I > >have even proposed your idea before to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I got > >no feedback. You describe the solution very well with your illustration. I > >get into these annoying debates with someone I work with about tabs versus > >spaces and it is tiresome. My co-worker thinks everyone should conform to > >spaces since tab-formatted source looks inconsistent. I argued that the > >problem is not with tabs themselves but that development tools are not smart > >about when to ommit tabs and when to ommit spaces instead! IDEA may have a > >smart editor, but I haven't seen any editor that has any intelligence when > >it comes to tabs versus spaces. They just have an option to ommit one or > >the other, regardless of context, and that's it. What's needed is more than > >this. Your excellent idea Tom *AND* having the editor recognize that a > >source file uses either tabs or spaces at the vicinity of text entry and do > >the right thing depending on wether it found any tabs within, say, 5 lines > >up or down of where the user hits the tab key. Sure... it isn't trivial for > >IntelliJ to put forth the effort to go above and beyond the typical editor; > >but then again, that's why I've paid them $400. > > > >~ Dave Smiley > > MITRE > > > > > Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:16:59 +0100 > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > From: Thomas Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: [Eap-list] Smart tabs? > > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Hello IntelliJ, > > > > > > I proposed from time to time, that IDEA should have an option for smart > > > tab-placements. What do you think about it? > > > > > > For all, that can't remember, what I meant, I 'll explain in short. Assume > > > following code: > > > > > > private int test(String value1, > > > String value2) { > > > return getValue(value1, > > > value2); > > > } > > > > > > I want to get following use of spaces and tabs (tabs are marked as "|->" > > > and spaces as "." where important; 4 spaces per tab): > > > > > > |-->private int test(String value1, > > > |-->.................String value2) { > > > |-->|-->return getValue(value1, > > > |-->|-->................value2); > > > |-->} > > > > > > and now, viewed with 8 spaces per tab: > > > > > > |------>private int test(String value1, > > > |------>.................String value2) { > > > |------>|------>return getValue(value1, > > > |------>|------>................value2); > > > |------>} > > > > > > Advantages: everything, that is in one column, remains in one column. You > > > can view this code with any spaces-per-tab-settings you prefer, it always > > > looks good. > > > > > > To get this, only some rules are necessary: > > > > > > 1) Each non-wrapped line is indented with tabs. > > > 2) Each wrapped line takes the tab-indentation from the last non-wrapped > > > one and fills the rest with spaces! > > > 3) Tabs are only valid before the left non-white-space character. Pressing > > > the tab key, lets say after "getValue(value1,|" always inserts spaces, > > > never tabs! > > > > > > I hope, that IDEA would have this smart indentation engine. I believe, it > > > even would help SUN to layout their sources (having a look into the > > > Jdk-Sources with a tab setting different than 8 is terrible). > > > > > > Tom > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Eap-list mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list > > > _______________________________________________ > Eap-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
