On 24 Mar 2009, at 22:22, JiHO wrote:
[...] I will usually tab in the leading tabs I want, and then use spaces to shift things where I want them to be.
Time for some elastic tabstops in TextMate: http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/ This approach seems so superior to the rest that Iam surprised so few editors picked it up.
My reply from “back then”:
Indeed it is interesting. I do think there would be too big a compatibility problem with actually saving such files, since all renderings of the file (cat it in terminal, paste it in an email, on the web, etc.) would be wrong — and it’s not easily fixable, e.g. by piping the text through something like expand, which would normally fix presenting a file with the wrong tab size.