On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:01:43 +0200 Marc Santhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm not really happy with lazarus' tab indentation feature. > > When the next line has an indentation wider than standard tab width, > which is set to 2 spaces in my case, the cursor jumps to the (delphi > like IIRC) next position aligned under the next space in the previous > line (me thinks ;). > > I want to have smart tabs on, because I don't need to hit tab several > times for deep indentations, but the stop should be only 2 places more > than the start of the word in the previous line above ... difficult to > explain. > > Look here, if I have this: > > case ButtonType of > nbFirst: lb.ItemIndex := 0; > nbLast: begin > > and want to write that: > > case ButtonType of > nbFirst: begin > lb.ItemIndex := 0; > ... > end; > nbLast: begin > > When hitting enter with the cursor before "lb.itemIndex" it is > indented to align with "nbFirst". If I hit TAB with smart tabs off I > have to do that a couple of times - too often. > > If I do the same with smart tabs on, the first TAB aligns with the > colon after "nbFirst", the second aligns one char after the "of" two > lines above (the "case" line). This second TAB should align two > spaces wide, not to any end of word. > > Can someone follow me? Yes. Smart tabs jumps to next word start of previous lines. > Is this behaviour possible with any combination of editor settings? No. That's why they are called 'smart'. Mattias _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus