From: Randall R S. <rs...@so...> - 2004-08-18 03:05:58
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Felix, On Tuesday 17 August 2004 19:43, Felix Collins wrote: > Randall R Schulz wrote: > <snip> > > > But the ideal would be to define columnar tabs (as opposed to > > interval tabs) and then having a single press of the TAB key (or > > perhaps modifier+TAB) replaced with the right number of tabs (or > > spaces, if you're that sort) to align the next character typed to the > > specified location. > > I don't think that tab stops would be ideal. Usually you only want to > apply columnar formatting to a short section of the source file. Then > further on in the file you might want more columnar formatting with > different alignment. Well, for the style of coding I employ, classic columnar tabs are just about all I use. Besides, if columnar tabbing is bound to modifier+TAB, there's no problem--you have both at your disposal to use as you need. > Having tabs doesn't help you much when you are tidying up an existing > bit of code. > > I've used a tool that allowed you to select a block and format it and > it was extremely useful. I suppose batch mode works for some... > I hope someone out there has something we can use or has the time to > write it! ;-) > > Cheers, > Felix Randall Schulz |