Re: Great SWT Program

In article <1193452732.071978.145320@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<nebulous99@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
(1) Use search-and-replace to remove a selected number of spaces
from the start of each line, applied to a selected range of lines.

That's not possible.

Right. Something I do routinely isn't possible. I'm lying? Deluded?

You expect me to just believe everything you say, even when it's the
equivalent of "I've invented a perpetual motion machine!" or "I spent
the week at Alpha Centauri -- took two whole days to get there and two
to get back so I was gone for 11 days total"?

You obviously do not realize it, but in the above paragraph you have
managed to praise the capabilities of vi as superior to those of your
own chosen tools to the extent that said tools are in the stone age in
comparison to vi.

In your own words, you simply fail to believe that it is possible to
be as efficient in vi as it actually is - because you are stuck with
sharpened rocks when others are using laser cutters and to you,
sharpened rocks are the way of the future.

And there's no one-size-fits-all for those anyway. HTML, LaTeX, and
Algol-derived languages are indented using three different cues;
indenting based on {} nesting will only be appropriate for the third,
for instance. So no matter what the editor uses to decide, it will get
it wrong for at least two of those three.

It never occurred to you that it is possible to indent differently
depending on the type of file that is being edited?

Cheers,
Bent D
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