[Lazarus] Auto indentation

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Tue Nov 3 17:30:05 CET 2009



On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Mattias Gärtner wrote:

> Zitat von Henry Vermaak <henry.vermaak at gmail.com>:
>
>> 2009/11/3 Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org>:
>>> 
>>> I'm sorry to say, but in my experience many of these well-meant automatic
>>> features get it wrong more often than right... I still didn't figure out
>>> if it is me or the features that are at fault :(
>
> I guess you mean the block completion (begin..end).

Exactly.

> I agree here. For beginners it can be a big help. But if it fails in 10% of 
> the cases it is still annoying. Same in other IDE's for other languages too.
>
>
>> I also tend to disable these features, since I find it a bit
>> disconcerting if something strange happens while I type, but it's
>> probably just a matter of getting used to it.
>
> I worked with auto indenting since a few days and it helps me already.
> Indent on paste is a big time saver - at least when synedit gives me correct 
> values. I will try to find a solution.

Looking forward to a solution, because the indent on paste sounds good.

Michael.


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