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[ jEdit-users ] tabs, tabs, and spaces

[Matt C. <ma...@si...>]

Hi all,

Where I work as a tech writer, all the programmers use vi. They have  
a very weird (to me) convention where they use 4-space tabs, but have  
vi set up to automatically replace 8 spaces with a tab char. So, they  
have 4-space tabs, but an 8-space tab *character*. If you see what I  
mean.

Seemingly this is no problem for them or vi. Is there an easy way to  
set up jEdit so I can at least read files like this, if not write  
them? Right now the indentation of files touched by programmers is  
screwed up when I open it in jEdit, because their tabs are 8-spaces  
and mine are, of course, 4. For saving, I don't think they really  
care if I save files with 8 spaces instead of compressing them to tabs.

Thanks,

Matt

Re: [ jEdit-users ] tabs, tabs, and spaces

[Slava P. <sl...@je...>]

Hi,

In jEdit, set your tab width to 8, set your indent width to 4, and 
disable the 'soft tabs' option.

Slava

Matt Chaput wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Where I work as a tech writer, all the programmers use vi. They have  a 
> very weird (to me) convention where they use 4-space tabs, but have  vi 
> set up to automatically replace 8 spaces with a tab char. So, they  have 
> 4-space tabs, but an 8-space tab *character*. If you see what I  mean.
> 
> Seemingly this is no problem for them or vi. Is there an easy way to  
> set up jEdit so I can at least read files like this, if not write  them? 
> Right now the indentation of files touched by programmers is  screwed up 
> when I open it in jEdit, because their tabs are 8-spaces  and mine are, 
> of course, 4. For saving, I don't think they really  care if I save 
> files with 8 spaces instead of compressing them to tabs.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [ jEdit-users ] tabs, tabs, and spaces

[Matt C. <ma...@si...>]

> Hi,
>
> In jEdit, set your tab width to 8, set your indent width to 4, and  
> disable the 'soft tabs' option.

Slava, thanks for replying! If I do that, I can't use the tab key to  
indent (it'll insert a tab char). Should I just remap the tab to  
another function or a macro?

Thanks again,

Matt

Re: [ jEdit-users ] tabs, tabs, and spaces

[Slava P. <sl...@je...>]

Remap the tab key to a macro inserting four spaces.

Slava

Matt Chaput wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In jEdit, set your tab width to 8, set your indent width to 4, and  
>> disable the 'soft tabs' option.
> 
> 
> Slava, thanks for replying! If I do that, I can't use the tab key to  
> indent (it'll insert a tab char). Should I just remap the tab to  
> another function or a macro?
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
> 
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> September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices
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Re: [ jEdit-users ] tabs, tabs, and spaces

[Matt C. <ma...@si...>]

> Remap the tab key to a macro inserting four spaces.

Well, insert the number of spaces to move to the next tab. And I'll  
have to emulate the other functionality of tab-and-indent too (e.g.,  
if you've selected multiple lines, indent instead of insert).

Time to learn the macro language! :)

Thanks,

Matt