Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: > On 21/01/2008, Vinzent Höfler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm breaking my own promise and replying again... :) > > >>> I hope this will be my last reply. Please take a look at the flash >>> video on the ET website. >> I don't have flash, so I am bound to check out the Java example. > > Ask a friend, it's worth seeing.. > > >>> There he uses two editors (gvim and gedit). >> With appropriate plugins/scripts, I suppose. > > I guess, though his gedit plugin doesn't work with the latest gedit > anymore. It seems gedit changed some or other API call (what I can > gather from the console output error message). > >> Yes, that's what I figured. What I don't get is how the editor extracts >> the information _back_ from the file after the "tabstop" information has >> been deleted (that's what it does once it gets replaced with spaces). > > I don't know! It just does! :-) Actually on a serious note, it uses > pixel calculations based on the ET parameters you can specify: > MinimumWidth, PaddingWidth etc... When viewed with a ET enabled > editor, the text might shift by a few pixels (not spaces) but all > alignment will still be intact. It's just that clever! :)
Imo that plugin discussion is pretty useless. I'am coding in at least four different editors pascal (fp ide, joe, lazarus, ultraedit) and I fear there is no plugin for all editors I use :) _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal