Re: [ jEdit-devel ] Elastic tabstops is completely broken

[Eric B. <el...@gm...>]

I think I've experienced a bug, maybe 2.

The first issue is, shift+tab really messes things up. The current line
get's unindented, but if you keep doing it all lines of the similar indent
start moving forward.

Eg. If I start off with a piece of code like so:
[code]
* {
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
}
[/code]

Then tab between the attributes and values I get:
[code]
* {
    margin:     0px;
    padding:    0px;
}
[/code]

Cool, very clean. I think there is too much space, and it doesn't exactly go
along with the documentation - but more on that later.

Now, if I shift+tab on line 2 (the margin line), I get this:
[code]
* {
margin:     0px;[cursor was here]
        padding:     0px;
}
[/code]

As you can see, padding line got indented again, and the margin line got
unindented. It get's worse the larger the code sample is. I think this is a
bug, unindenting a line shouldn't affect it's context lines.

The second issue has to do with the spacing, and the way multiple tabs
works.

Again, starting with this code sample:
[code]
* {
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
}
[/code]

Adding tabs as expected:
[code]
* {
    margin:     0px;
    padding:    0px;
}
[/code]

Good so far. However, now if I add another tab between margin and it's
value, I expect for padding's value to line up, but the tab is only added to
the margin line.
Eg
[code]
* {
    margin:        0px;
    padding:    0px;
}
[/code]

I'm thinking this one is just a my not understanding the nature of elastic
tab stops, but that is the impression I get from the documentation.

Is this correct?

Thanks,
Eric

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Matthieu Casanova
<cho...@gm...>wrote:

> Finally I found the problem :
> It happens when using Minitabs plugin, but I don't know why exactly
>
> Matthieu
>
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Matthieu Casanova
> <cho...@gm...> wrote:
> > That's completely incredible, I'm at home with a fresh jEdit install
> > and it works prefectly now, maybe a plugin made it crash at work, I
> > have to investigate that, anyway the feature is very nice to use
> >
> > Matthieu
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Shlomy Reinstein <sre...@gm...>
> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> Can you send the exceptions? I don't get any of this.
> >> It can be slow if there's a long block with similar tabulation - but
> that's
> >> due to nature of this feature, I think. In most source files, the blocks
> of
> >> code that go together in this feature are not large.
> >> Thanks,
> >> Shlomy
> >>
> >> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Matthieu Casanova <
> cho...@gm...>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi, I tried the elastic tabstops feature, and it seems it is completely
> >>> broken :
> >>>
> >>> If I type <tab> means a tabulation
> >>>
> >>> a<tab>b\n
> >>> c<tab>
> >>>
> >>> I get exceptions, this happens everytime. And in a big file it can
> >>> become very very slow.
> >>>
> >>> Matthieu
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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