I’m a beginner with Notepad++, but I found it very useful. Started to use it this Monday; and I've already written my first plugin.
I develop many cross platform projects (C/C++ on Windows and UNIX) and have been using different editors (and still are), but I believe Notepad++ will make some of them obsolete.
My problem is that the my tab size is "physical" set to 8, since I use many UNIX command line tools like diff, cat, more, etc.
In editors like NEdit (an X editor on UNIX) and in Visual C++ 2005, I can configure the tab size to 8 and the indent size to 2. In VC++ the tab key does an indent, and not inserting a physical TAB character.
Can Notepad++ act like VC++ regarding tab size and indent sizes? I’m asking is because I don’t want to go into very old source files and change any TAB characters to right amount of spaces.
Hope for some help on this issue,
Thomas
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If you are using the latest version(This facility is in older version too, but I don't remember from which),
Goto "settings" menu (6th Item).
Select "Preference..." (1st Item).
Now you will see.. the Dialog.
Select "MICS" tab.
In top left corner you will find the setting; probably what you need.
Take a look at all options. that will make your life easy.
Take Care,
Abhay
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Hi,
I’m a beginner with Notepad++, but I found it very useful. Started to use it this Monday; and I've already written my first plugin.
I develop many cross platform projects (C/C++ on Windows and UNIX) and have been using different editors (and still are), but I believe Notepad++ will make some of them obsolete.
My problem is that the my tab size is "physical" set to 8, since I use many UNIX command line tools like diff, cat, more, etc.
In editors like NEdit (an X editor on UNIX) and in Visual C++ 2005, I can configure the tab size to 8 and the indent size to 2. In VC++ the tab key does an indent, and not inserting a physical TAB character.
Can Notepad++ act like VC++ regarding tab size and indent sizes? I’m asking is because I don’t want to go into very old source files and change any TAB characters to right amount of spaces.
Hope for some help on this issue,
Thomas
Hi Thomas,
If you are using the latest version(This facility is in older version too, but I don't remember from which),
Goto "settings" menu (6th Item).
Select "Preference..." (1st Item).
Now you will see.. the Dialog.
Select "MICS" tab.
In top left corner you will find the setting; probably what you need.
Take a look at all options. that will make your life easy.
Take Care,
Abhay