[TxMt] Re: Change visual tab size of soft tabs?

[Graham Heath]

Glad to hear it!

Ligatures are an interesting solve. I assume this appears when you have 
two spaces that aren't leading spaces, too, but maybe that'd help you 
catch issues too...

Thanks,
Graham

On 2 Oct 2019, at 18:18, Kyle Kirbatski wrote:

> Hey Graham,
>
> Just wanted to follow up. I was able to edit the Microsoft’s 
> cascadia-code font to add a double space ligature and it looks 
> perfect. Thanks for giving me the idea.
>
> See the attached screenshots ;)
>
>
>> On Oct 2, 2019, at 5:35 PM, Kyle Kirbatski <kyle.kirby at me.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Those are some good solutions, but unfortunately I mainly have issue 
>> with how small two spaces look compared to four. Seeing whitespace 
>> characters and the indent guide will certainly help. But using a 
>> different font does give me an interesting idea to find a font with 
>> two-space ligatures that appear as four spaces.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>> On Oct 2, 2019, at 4:09 PM, Graham Heath <graham.p.heath at gmail.com 
>>> <mailto:graham.p.heath at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Kyle,
>>>
>>> You've probably thought of these ideas before, but maybe you haven't 
>>> ¯_(ツ)_/¯.
>>>
>>> Have you tried enabling "View" -> "Show invisible characters"?
>>>
>>> What about using a different font? I like Source Code Pro[1] 
>>> <https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro> but there are a lot 
>>> of choices[2] 
>>> <http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts/>.
>>>
>>> How about "Show indent guides"?
>>>
>>> There's also this ancient post that enables a "indent guide"[3] 
>>> <https://stackoverflow.com/a/17492004/1167956> in a completely 
>>> different way. Speaking of this, @team friendly bump to make the 
>>> "Show indent guides" smarter...
>>>
>>> 1: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro 
>>> <https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro>
>>> 2: http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts/ 
>>> <http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts/>
>>> 3: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17492004/1167956 
>>> <https://stackoverflow.com/a/17492004/1167956>
>>> Hope that helps,
>>> Graham
>>>
>>> On 2 Oct 2019, at 15:44, Kyle Kirbatski wrote:
>>>
>>> Our coding stands call for two space indentation. I find it hard to 
>>> read the code with 2 space tab size. I find it easier to read with 4 
>>> spaces. Though I see what you mean. It’s fine for leading 
>>> indentation but code alignment would get messed up. Ugh. Guess 
>>> I’ll have to contend with 2 space tab size.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Oct 2, 2019, at 3:54 AM, Rafał Komorowski <komor at mac.com 
>>>> <mailto:komor at mac.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Wiadomość napisana przez Kyle Kirbatski <kyle.kirby at me.com 
>>>>> <mailto:kyle.kirby at me.com>> w dniu 01/10/2019, o godz. 23:02:
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it possible to have the tab size be 2 spaces, but change it to 
>>>>> look like 4 spaces?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What could be the possible outcome of this? It would confuse user 
>>>> and possibly ruin careful indentation of comments or docs.
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>>
>>>> Rafał Komorowski
>>>> komor at mac.com <mailto:komor at mac.com>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>>
>>>> Rafał Komorowski
>>>> komor at mac.com <mailto:komor at mac.com>
>>>> tel. 502 443 143
>>>>
>>>>
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