On 21/01/2008, Marco van de Voort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Such schemes have been tried before, but usually fail since that makes > source only (practically) editable with one editor, which most users loath. > I don't see what's so different about this one. > > Also think about e.g. the trouble with RCS, patch systems etc.
Okay, but did you actually try the example application to see how it works? I'll explain, as it was a bit confusing for me as well - I could see the point either (in the beginning). Elastic tabstops saves the files with spaces, NOT tabs. So if you load those files with any editor that doesn't support Elastic Tabstops, they are formatted as normal, using spaces. If you open that file with a editor supporting Elastic Tabstops if inserts tabstops to keep alignment correct. My inserting tabstops, I mean in the editor window, NOT the source code. It's like editing a document in OpenOffice or Word and using Left or Right Align tabstops. So for Elastic Tabstops to work, you need a editor component which supports tabstops - the Lazarus editor doesn't, so I couldn't implement it. So while you work with the file in the editor, tabstops are inserted, removed or move around to keep text alignment as pretty as can be. But once you save, it inserts the correct amount of spaces to keep that same alignment on file or (preferred) inserts the minimum spaces for standard indentation (Object Pascal uses two spaces for indentation). It doesn't use tab characters. The later option works best when you have people that prefer different indentation levels as the editor will automatically replace the two space indentation with a tabstop in the editor at the correct indentation level. Version control software can all handle spaces without issue. Elastic Tabstops works on the *visual appearance* of code in the editor window only, whereas other people tried the visual appears _and_ the saved appearance. Elastic Tabstops is actually a very cleaver idea. Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
