On Monday, November 19, 2012 7:43:32 AM UTC-6, Nick Gravgaard wrote: > > But maybe there could be 2 new features that could combine together to > > > create the ability to do things like elastic tabstops or tables in the > > > middle of text nicely, without backwards-incompatible changes and keeping > > > in the spirit of other Vim options: > > > > > > 1. Implement variable-width tabstops by allowing a comma-separated list > > > to be used as a value for 'tabstop'. For example, setting ts=4,2,8 would > > > have the first tab in the line stop at column 4, the next stop at column > > > 6, and all other tabs stop at 14, 22, 30, ... > > > 2. Implement a 'tabstopexpr' option which would be set to an expression > > > giving the value of 'tabstop' to use for v:lnum (which could potentially > > > be a different comma-separated list for each line depending on context) > > > > This sounds interesting. Are there any other Vim settings that work on > > different lines? If so, how do they work?
The ones that come to mind immediately are indentexpr and foldexpr, and to a lesser extent formatexpr. I think indentexpr is the most similar to what tabstopexpr would do. AFAIK for indentexpr and foldexpr, Vim evaluates the expression on every line starting at the first, setting v:lnum to the line being evaluated for each line. Normally a user sets the expression to a function, like ":set indentexpr=MyFunIndent(v:lnum)". If these two options were to be implemented, I imagine elastic tabstops could be done fairly simply in vimscript by using getline() to get some context around v:lnum and returning an appropriate string for the tabstops in the line. I have no idea how complex these two options would be to implement. -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
