[Lazarus] elastic tab[Re: Auto indentation]

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

2009/11/4 Martin <lazarus at mfriebe.de>:
>
> From what I read, setting it in pixel is not a pre-condition. You could same
> as good set it to "char pos" (like 1 pixel = 1 char-width)


Thinking about it a bit more you are 100% correctly. Character width
(count) could also be used in the Elastic Tabstop algorithm.

eg: Using the elastic tabstops customization variables:

* minimumwidth could be set to 3, meaning the with of 3 base characters
    (exact width is not too important anyway, as long as all left edge
     tabstops use the same width).

* paddingwidth colud be set to 2, meaning the width of 2 base characters.


Thanks for pointing this out.


-- 
Regards,
  - Graeme -


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