In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: > > other editors. > > Elastic Tabstops (ET) only does rendering of the text - based on two > user defined preferences. The underling file doesn't change because of > user preference changes. The underlying file is just a TAB(U+0009) > indented file - like most programming language style defaults (Object > Pascal for some reason being the exception - but it doesn't need to be).
Yeah, that's what I mean. One of the reasons why hardtabs are such pain is because you need settings to view a file properly. I've worked with quite some C/C++ and Java IDEs, but can't really remember any defaulting to hardtabs (some did default to LF-only files though, another PITA) > Anyway, again, my discussion wasn't meant to be about ET specifically, > but simply that text editors could become more intelligent by > automatically adjusting the spacing of long numerical literals (without > affecting the underlying file - like ET capable editors achieve). If you can do it in IDE, do it in IDE, indeed. A popup with some separators inserted and/or multiple number systems would be the way to go in this case I guess. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
