On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Matthew Brush <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2017-04-23 11:31 AM, o1bigtenor wrote: >> >> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 9:41 PM, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 22 April 2017 at 12:33, o1bigtenor <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 7:45 PM, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> 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). >
Thanks for the response! I checked - - - its a font called Monospace on my Debian 'stable' read 'Jessie' vm. All editors have the tab width set to 4 spaces (after checking previously - - - - I did try to find the problem!). What makes this confusing is that the single tab width at the beginning of the line is never different. The 2 tab spaces after the date is almost never an issue - - - but the end of the line $ amounts - - - well it shifts - - - sometimes to the right and sometimes to the left. Doesn't seem to be any consistency to it. That's why I'm totally puzzled as to how to fix. Regards Dee _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
