[Lazarus] Elastic Tabstops: benefits or not

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:

> First I created a procedure declaration which has each parameter
> commented. I then duplicated that declaration and then inserted a new
> 3rd parameter. As you can see from the second declaration, without me
> having to go to any of the other parameter lines, all the comments
> automatically aligned in the new location.

What restrictions must be observed in order to make the desired output 
format occur? What about lengthy (multi line) descriptions?

Such EOL-block comments as in ex1 are ugly and a waste of space. More 
useful were a comment block describing the interface, that can be 
inserted into auto-generated documentation.

ex2 seems to be more useful, but have a severe limiation: when a record 
has more fields, either the lines will become overly long, disappearing 
to the right of the screen, or they must be wrapped, breaking any table 
formatting.


Can you provide examples with the above modifications (longer comments 
and records, and a block description of the procedure interface)?

Also, what will happen while editing, when one of the rows must be 
enlarged while typing? Will all the rows be reformatted with every 
keystroke?

DoDi