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#19 Virtual space
It would be nice to have a virtual space option like
most text editors, i.e. being able to move the text
cursor past the end of the line, then if you enter a
character it fills up to that point with spaces (or
tabs if you have them enabled I guess) and adds the
character to the end of the line.
Thanks,
- Martin Alderson
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May be added in the future but not soon.
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Are there chances that could be done? Maybe I can
contribute to it, but I must know where do modifications in
the code.
Bye,
Enrico
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It is quite difficult. I have tried to find a reasonable technique
but do not see one. One person tried to implement this but I
think they have given up.
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Has there been any progress on implementing virtual spaces
since the last posted date of 2003-07-23? Is anyone working
on it? Not having this feature really makes key macros
awkward to use because you cannot depend on absolute
positioning in the document.
Brad Elliott
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I do not know of anyone working on this feature.
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Hi
This is very very important function which made that software using scintilla couldn't totally overtake Ultra Edit.
Crimson editor have got this function too and It seems that its sources are available at http://svn.emeraldeditor.com/
Hope that that it could be implemented as soon as possible.
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Hi
Still actually!
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I'm using NotePad++ as a text editor. Based on Scintilla, this is a great editor, but it's lacking one important thing: virtual spaces.
I've seen here that it has already been requested since 2002 (6 years now!!!) and still no progress on this. It's really a pity, because this feature would make NPP *the* free editor!
Don Ho (creator of NPP) already told he could do it, but he doesn't want to change the Scintilla code himself, to avoid having to merge over and over again whenever a new release of Scintilla is done.
Why not taking up contact with Don Ho to see how he did it/would do it and then take it up internally in the Scintilla community?
I think *a lot* of people are eagerly waiting for this feature.
Hope it will be taken up soon and hope too we might expect it quickly in one of the next Scintilla releases!
Best rgds,
--Geert
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I'm using NotePad++ as a text editor. Based on Scintilla, this is a great editor, but it's lacking one important thing: virtual spaces.
I've seen here that it has already been requested since 2002 (6 years now!!!) and still no progress on this. It's really a pity, because this feature would make NPP *the* free editor!
Don Ho (creator of NPP) already told he could do it, but he doesn't want to change the Scintilla code himself, to avoid having to merge over and over again whenever a new release of Scintilla is done.
Why not taking up contact with Don Ho to see how he did it/would do it and then take it up internally in the Scintilla community?
I think *a lot* of people are eagerly waiting for this feature.
Hope it will be taken up soon and hope too we might expect it quickly in one of the next Scintilla releases!
Best rgds,
--Geert
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The reason it has taken so long is that no one has contributed a patch or even a design. If you think it is important then go ahead and implement it.
Added in 2.0.