NotePadd++ has the ability to show spaces and tabs together, but not just one or the other exclusively. It would be nice if the 2 were broken up. When I open documents I always look for tabs to filter them out if there are any, so I leave tabs showing all of the time. However, I don't like to leave spaces showing all of the time because it clutters the screen. It would be great if NPP had an option to toggle the viewing of spaces and tabs independent of each other. FYI, the option to turn both on in 5.4.5 is "View-Symbol-Show White Space and Tab".
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The options in Scintilla have expanded with v2.01, check the link you just provided :-) I have an eye on SCWS_AFTERINDENT, or whatever the exact mnemonic.
CChris
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Ask for it on IdeaTorrent. What should NP++ show if some line is indented by a tab, some spaces and another tab? Could happen after copy-paste and modification.
CChris
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I used to use Slick Edit and I was fine with the way it handled tabs. It would put a very light gray % symbol in the first position of the tab, but you could set that character to anything. The color of the tab character was much lighter than the text so that it did not make it more difficult to read the code.
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"IdeaTorrent" is in the "Hosted Apps", in the menu just below the title "Notepad++" on this page.
I think that more than just maping the " tab" character, it would be a good idea to be able to map any character to any symbol we like, in any color we like (but I'm not sure how this color should be mixed if the same character is also syntax-highlighted).
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That's not going to be very easy; currently Notepad++ just uses the options provided by Scintilla (the editor component). See http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_SETVIEWWS for the options that it supports. You could ask the Scintilla guys to build it in.
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NotePadd++ has the ability to show spaces and tabs together, but not just one or the other exclusively. It would be nice if the 2 were broken up. When I open documents I always look for tabs to filter them out if there are any, so I leave tabs showing all of the time. However, I don't like to leave spaces showing all of the time because it clutters the screen. It would be great if NPP had an option to toggle the viewing of spaces and tabs independent of each other. FYI, the option to turn both on in 5.4.5 is "View-Symbol-Show White Space and Tab".
The options in Scintilla have expanded with v2.01, check the link you just provided :-) I have an eye on SCWS_AFTERINDENT, or whatever the exact mnemonic.
CChris
Ask for it on IdeaTorrent. What should NP++ show if some line is indented by a tab, some spaces and another tab? Could happen after copy-paste and modification.
CChris
What is IDEA Torrent? How do I access it?
I used to use Slick Edit and I was fine with the way it handled tabs. It would put a very light gray % symbol in the first position of the tab, but you could set that character to anything. The color of the tab character was much lighter than the text so that it did not make it more difficult to read the code.
"IdeaTorrent" is in the "Hosted Apps", in the menu just below the title "Notepad++" on this page.
I think that more than just maping the " tab" character, it would be a good idea to be able to map any character to any symbol we like, in any color we like (but I'm not sure how this color should be mixed if the same character is also syntax-highlighted).
That's not going to be very easy; currently Notepad++ just uses the options provided by Scintilla (the editor component). See http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_SETVIEWWS for the options that it supports. You could ask the Scintilla guys to build it in.