> I think it is about how LyX displays the tabs. Now, the tabs are painted by > QPainter and the cursor movement is guided by QFontMetrics. I tried to paint > the tabs and to guide the cursor myself, but this lead to (for me) > ununderstandable crashes. If you know how we can override the default of 8 > spaces, let me know.
If you have a patch that leads to crash, maybe I can have a look. Abdel is more likely to know the answer though. > Second, if the user specifies a certain tab width for the output in listings, > then it would also be nice that the same tab width is used on the screen. > This means we have to pass this info to the (rather low-level) painting and > cursor movement code. I do not think this is necessary. Use 4 spaces in lyx is enough. > May it be an option to create an InsetTab or something, which can easily be > specified a certain width and can be drawn in a customized way ? This is too complicated.. Bo
