[TxMt] Soft tabs / tabs <-> spaces

[Andy Armstrong]

On 7 Feb 2006, at 00:16, Allan Odgaard wrote:
> If you just want it to insert four spaces, start macro recording,  
> press space 4 times, stop macro recording, save macro and bind to  
> the tab key. Then use it with soft tabs disabled.

No, I'd like the current soft tabs behaviour where hitting tab  
inserts spaces up to the next tab stop - but without cursor movements  
pretending that runs of spaces are actually tabs. I'd like to be able  
to tell from how the cursor moves whether the file contains a real  
tab or not.

> Although then tab can no longer be used to expand snippets (snippet  
> expansion can however also be rebind).
>
> For a more complex version, it'd have to be a command and use  
> TM_TABZIE and likely TM_COLUMN_NUMBER.
>
> But why do you want this? if it's to see when it's using tabs or  
> spaces, you can enable Show Invisibles in the View menu.

I don't like being able to see invisible characters but I do like the  
cursor movement to reflect what's in the text. For example I find it  
annoying not to be able to place the cursor in the middle of a  
'virtual' tab and start typing.

Force of habit I guess :)

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Andy Armstrong, hexten.net