Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 12. Nov 2004, at 15:58, M Spreij wrote:
Would it be possible to have tab-emulation only function at the start of a line? Extremely few (if any) of the documents I edit directly have a column layout (where tabs would be useful), I only really use them for indentation.. and when editing regular text it'd be nice to have backspace/delete only remove one space at the time.
I agree that tab emulation sucks for prose (for me generally when I accidentally do an extra space and want to delete it again, it may delete both spaces) -- though having it only work in the front of the line will probably not be good for code.
Would you ever need tab emulation in prose? cause if not, the solution could be to have tab emulation a file type specific setting.
I also could do a heuristic to catch the double-space problem, but I'm afraid that this wouldn't be without false positives, which would probably frustrate people using it for writing code.
Comments?
If tabs could be made visible (like - I hate to say it - in BBEdit), that would solve my particular problem as well, I think, as then I could just make sure the indentations were always tabs, and turn of Tab Emulation.
Regards,
Martin