Re: Suggested changes to Delphi editor

"Ondrej Popelka" <"jana dt vasseru at gmail"> wrote in message news:op.t02uz8xo0bmaug@xxxxxxxxxx
Same goes for tabs. When pressing left, right arrows the cursor jumps the tabs as expected. When pressing up,down arrows or by clicking with mouse it is possible to write text 'inside' a tab padding it with spaces.
I find this behaviour quite annoying since it pretty much spoiles the advantage of using tab, since my code becomes a mixture of tabs and spaces.

I would turn off the tab character in the editor settings and let the editor fill with spaces. Tabs are a curse - if you open your doc in an editor with different tab settings, the alignment is wrong. With spaces you can freely share your code with others. These days, the tiny increase in file size is not important.

By definition, the tab character is wierd - a character which moves the text point to a position not defined within the document itself.

Roger Lascelles

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