[Lazarus] clarification / Re: constant-highlight ? [Re: quick opinion poll / pascal highlighting "case"]

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

2010/6/2 Vannus <vannus at gmail.com>:
> the biggest problem would be the files remaining readable in good ol' text
> editor

It will be. Simply alignment (I'm not talking about indentation) might
not be ideal. ET only adds one or two tab chacters - this will not
break any editor.

>. i guess if the tabs were replaced by spaces when saved, and then
> those spaces interpreted as tabs when files were opened we could 'bridge the
> gap'.

The ET plugin for gEdit can do this as well. But this is inherently
problematic if the code is shared with other developers, so I would
not recommend this. When gEdit (with Tab > Spaces conversion enabled)
saves a file, it converts what you see, as closely as possible using
spaces. If your ET indentation was set to 100px width, it will
obviously not look nice for somebody that use 2 spaces indentation (2
spaces <> 100 pixel width).


-- 
Regards,
  - Graeme -


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