[TxMt] Automagically figuring out tab size?

[Giulio Cesare Solaroli]

Hi Allan, ciao Domenico,

thank you for your replies.

I completely missed the status-bar. I usually look for
setting/preferences on the top side of the windows, and did not see
the bar until after reading you message. :-)

The set-up (once found) is quite handy, but I am quite "integralist"
on tab setting (you can set it to any value you what as long as it is
4) I would like to have also an explicit global setting, to avoid the
guessing you are doing now.

Anyway I can live with the current solution; I have just started using
TextMate (mostly for the project drawer) even if I am quite
comfortable with plain old text editor (I'm still using SubEthaEdit
with great pleasure). TextMate seems following a different philosophy,
and I hope to get it right while using it.

Thanks again for your answers.

Giulio Cesare


On 12/5/05, Allan Odgaard <throw-away-1 at macromates.com> wrote:
> On 5/12/2005, at 21:22, Domenico Carbotta wrote:
>
> >> I thought it was an extension based configuration
> > guess what -- you're right :)
> > open a Terminal window and type
> >     defaults delete com.macromates.textmate OakTextViewScopedTabSize
> > to reset them all.
>
> Of course the way I expected people to adjust tab size was by using
> the pop-up in the status bar :)
>
> By default TM has different settings for a few known scopes (Ruby: 2,
> Markdown: 4, Old-style Property List: 4, ...). If your preference is
> e.g. 6, you may need to set it for a few different types before it's
> 6 for all file types -- it tries to be smart, so if you open a file
> for which you haven't set an explicit size, and TM doesn't ship with
> a default size for that file type, then it uses the setting of the
> "closest" file type (e.g. source.ruby.rails is closest to
> source.ruby), and if nothing is closest, it uses the size you most
> recently set explicitly.
>
> So the times you need to "correct" the tab size should be down to a
> minimum, while still offering per-file type tab settings.
>
>
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