[TxMt] Turn off auto-indent?

Brian Smith bsmith26 at san.rr.com
Fri Jan 7 05:29:48 UTC 2005


Wow--I use TextPad daily on my PC at work and always wished there was a 
text editor like it for the Mac where I could easily switch between 
documents with tabs.  And the ability to call a shell script to do a 
word count or any other UNIX command and have the output appear as a 
tooltip, new window, or whatever you want--brilliant, and really easy 
to use.  This is probably the first time I've wished TextPad could do 
some things a Mac editor can do, and not vice versa.

There's only one seemingly minor thing that's keeping me from buying 
TextMate right now and retiring Tex-Edit Plus--TextMate's auto-identing 
feature, where if I have a paragraph of text (not code), it 
automatically inserts a tab on the next line when I hit return.  This 
drives me nuts because while I use my Mac editor for HTML at times, I 
mainly use it to write documents that have normal indented paragraphs 
of text.  At the end of a paragraph in a word processor or email 
program I'm conditioned to hit return, then hit tab for the next 
paragraph--so having TextMate indent the next paragraph automatically 
just means I end up with two tabs.

Does anyone know if there's a way to turn off auto-indenting of new 
lines, or is that a feature being considered for a future release?  If 
there is a way to turn that off and I just can't find it, I apologize 
for being an idiot in advance...anyway, thanks to the developer for 
creating this, keep up the good work,

-Brian




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