+1 : methinks it smart to honour existing standards.
I usually work with invisibles on, which Just Works for me. The invisibles settle very nicely into the background, but its obvious if something's up.
actually Allan, how about setting invisibles on if the user's tab settings are overridden? it'd get the point across, and as i mentioned i think they're commendably unobtrusive ornaments
cheers, David
On 18/11/2005, at 9:54 PM, Graeme Mathieson wrote:
On 16 Nov 2005, at 18:16, chris feldmann wrote:
I hesitate to suggest this, but how about modlines ala emacs or vim? /* vim:set ts=4 sw=4 nowrap: */
Yep, it would be nice to honour them too, since a number of the files I edit (from when I used to use XEmacs) do have settings stashed away like that.
But in the absence of any obvious clues like that, some heuristic to figure it out (then maybe highlighting the tabs indicator in the status bar in red or something?) would be really useful.
Then again, nothing could possibly guess the correct indentation for the dodgy piece of HTML I'm editing just now, which has a mixture of tabs, spaces (varying amounts of indentation at that!). I suppose that's what happens when you let the marketing folks near the web site...! -- Mail: mathie@woss.name | Web: http://woss.name/ AIM: Math1e | PGP: 1024D/D72F2737
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