one feature i miss from other text editors are white space indicators and indentation guides. please see attached screenshot. note the subtle dots which indicate spaces and the vertical dotted lines which are usually called indentation guides. i'd love if textmate had options to display these things.
-moshe
On 07.11.2005, at 16:29, Moshe Weitzman wrote:
one feature i miss from other text editors are white space indicators and indentation guides. please see attached screenshot. note the subtle dots which indicate spaces and the vertical dotted lines which are usually called indentation guides. i'd love if textmate had options to display these things.
Spaces could probably be added to the 'Show Invisibles' feature easily, although an option to control which invisibles are meant would be nice. Maybe not all people like to see spaces.
But these vertical lines seem to be very useful. I want them too!
Jonas
BTW: My Textmate trial period ends tomorrow. It's been a very long time I bought my last software, but this editor is very well worth my money. Thumbs up, Allan!
On Nov 7, 2005, at 9:48 AM, Jonas Witt wrote:
On 07.11.2005, at 16:29, Moshe Weitzman wrote:
one feature i miss from other text editors are white space indicators and indentation guides. please see attached screenshot. note the subtle dots which indicate spaces and the vertical dotted lines which are usually called indentation guides. i'd love if textmate had options to display these things.
Spaces could probably be added to the 'Show Invisibles' feature easily, although an option to control which invisibles are meant would be nice. Maybe not all people like to see spaces.
But these vertical lines seem to be very useful. I want them too!
I'm not a big fan of indentation guides, but I'd like to have a page boundary guide, e.g. a vertical line at 80 columns (or 132, or 17, or whatever). Plus if we're throwing all those vertical lines at the left-hand side of the editor then the right-hand side will get lonely and unbalanced.
-dudley
On Nov 7, 2005, at 17:40, Dudley Flanders wrote:
On Nov 7, 2005, at 9:48 AM, Jonas Witt wrote:
On 07.11.2005, at 16:29, Moshe Weitzman wrote:
one feature i miss from other text editors are white space indicators and indentation guides. please see attached screenshot. note the subtle dots which indicate spaces and the vertical dotted lines which are usually called indentation guides. i'd love if textmate had options to display these things.
Spaces could probably be added to the 'Show Invisibles' feature easily, although an option to control which invisibles are meant would be nice. Maybe not all people like to see spaces.
But these vertical lines seem to be very useful. I want them too!
I'm not a big fan of indentation guides, but I'd like to have a page boundary guide, e.g. a vertical line at 80 columns (or 132, or 17, or whatever).
Is not what's available under View -> Wrap Column? If soft wrap is disabled it acts as a guide AFAICT.
-- fxn
PS: By the way, I love the way you set the width.
On Nov 7, 2005, at 10:44 AM, Xavier Noria wrote:
I'm not a big fan of indentation guides, but I'd like to have a page boundary guide, e.g. a vertical line at 80 columns (or 132, or 17, or whatever).
Is not what's available under View -> Wrap Column? If soft wrap is disabled it acts as a guide AFAICT.
Why, it certainly is. I love this program :-) I didn't even look at that because I didn't want it to wrap, just to show me where it would. Disabling soft wrap in my mind would mean hard wrap, not disabling wrapping altogether.
-- fxn
PS: By the way, I love the way you set the width.
No kidding. It's all about the details, and little things like that make a big difference. It could just be a text box where you type in the width, but instead it's pretty. And that means more to me then I would like to admit.
-dudley
On 07.11.2005, at 17:40, Dudley Flanders wrote:
I'm not a big fan of indentation guides, but I'd like to have a page boundary guide, e.g. a vertical line at 80 columns (or 132, or 17, or whatever).
View -> Wrap Column -> Whatever. Shows a line if you turn the right margin indicator on (in preferences), if I understand this correctly.
Plus if we're throwing all those vertical lines at the left-hand side of the editor then the right-hand side will get lonely and unbalanced.
Poor right-hand side. ;)
Jonas
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