On 2016-11-21 15:52, Stephen Chrzanowski wrote: > but I've always preferred mono-spaced fonts in my IDE versus > variable width, JUST on the primary basis of legibility of the code itself, > ignoring the 'gravy' of lining up text within the code.
Hence I mentioned "think Elastic Tabstops" which solves that problem for proportional and monospace fonts. I've used Elastic Tabstop support in jEdit (java based editor) for the last 3 years, and it works brilliantly. Here is a fpGUI newsgroup post (printed to PDF), where I implemented basic Elastic Tabstops (ET) support in a homegrown text editor with the ability to play around with ET user-defined parameters. Also see the screenshots at the end where the last two uses proportional fonts. http://geldenhuys.co.uk/~graemeg/temp/elastic_tabstops_demo_landscape.pdf Elastic Tabstops homepage: http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/ A nice overview of ET: http://tibleiz.net/code-browser/elastic-tabstops.html Anyway, I didn't mean to make this message thread about ET, but I guess using something like ET (more intelligent editors) could solve the problem nicely without any compiler changes. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
