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From: Donald G P. <dg...@ni...> - 2005-09-28 17:30:51
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Again this message comes from Jeff Hobbs, blocked by SF technical difficulties; replies to him or list, please. ------------- Begin Forwarded Message ------------- From: Jeff Hobbs [mailto:je...@ac...] Sent: September 27, 2005 8:32 PM To: 'Vince Darley'; 'Tcl...@li...' Subject: Call For Votes: TIP#256 wordprocessor and tabular tabs This is a call for votes for TIP #256: http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/256.html Implement Tabular and Wordprocessor Style Tabbing Please vote by Tuesday, October 4th at 12:00pm PST. TIP #256: Yes Jeff Vince Darley wrote: > Can I ask again if anyone on the TCT will call a vote on tip#256? > > http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/256.html > > Abstract: There are two common style of tabbing in the > computer world: that used for a regular table of information, > and that used by a word-processor/text editor. This TIP > proposes to add support for the latter to Tk's text widget. > > -- > > The only real point of controversy on this tip is that '-ta' > and '-tab' will become ambiguous text widget configuration > options and hence throw errors. The consensus (but not > unanimous) during discussion was that it is better to have > such ambiguity rather than add synonyms to '-tabs'. There are > three reasonable rationales for > this: (1) it's happened in the past (e.g. with 'grid'), and > (2) Tk8.5 has seen such significant text widget improvements > that developers will probably want to revisit their text > widget code anyway, (3) we don't always have to consider lazy > coding as correct. ------------- End Forwarded Message ------------- | Don Porter Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division | | don...@ni... Information Technology Laboratory | | http://math.nist.gov/~DPorter/ NIST | |______________________________________________________________________| |