Re: New Feature Request: Automatic identing of code inside begin/end repeat/until blocks etc.


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> "Skybuck Flying" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Further the DelForEx tool uses spaces to do identing instead of tab
> >characters ?!?! major OUCH.
> >
> >Using this tool would probably waste more of my time than it solves :(
> >
> >The website has a link to the "borland style".
> >
>
>http://community.borland.com/soapbox/techvoyage/article/1,1795,10280,00.htm
> >
> >I can't help but feel that it's outdated. Surely borland must release by
now
> >that using tab characters is way more professional, simply because it
allows
> >perfect identing and faster movement through code when going back/left
with
> >the cursor.
> >
> >I truely wonder why somebody would use spaces instead. I am not sure but
> >maybe we had this discussing before... I simply can't remember any
reason...
> >Maybe it had something to do with different character sets or unicode or
> >something... just guessing.
> >
>
> If you use spaces, whichever editor you view the text in, you'll get
> exactly the same layout. If you use tabs, that's not always true,
> because different editors have different default tab-stop settings.
>
> If you set your tab-stops to two characters, and then load your code
> into Notepad, you'll find your listings have suddenly become very wide
> because the tabs are set to 8 characters.
> It's probably not important if you never use any other editor or share
> your code with anyone else who might use different settings.

This is the great thing about tabs ;)

Some like 2 spaces others like me like 4 spaces for each tab ;)

Bye,
Skybuck =D


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