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

[Henry Vermaak]

On 28 May 2010 21:38, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 May 2010 18:15, waldo kitty wrote:
>>
>> i don't know if i can retrain my thumb to hit the TAB instead of the space
>> bar as it has been trained to do these past 30+ years i've been coding :? :P
>
> :-)
> The sad thing is, the Tab key was invented for indentation and
> alignment, yet Pascal and many other languages refrain from using that
> key. I really think it's the limitations of the editors that forced us
> to start using the spaces bar to align and indent. Word Processors
> have variable width tabstops, elastic tabstops do the same as word
> processors but tuned for programming - it just makes more logical
> sense to use the tab character correctly. And obviously Programming
> Editors need to get with the times. Limited to mono fonts and fixed
> width tabs are getting rather old - imagine MS Word or OpenOffice
> Writer still had those limitations. :-/

I use the tab key for indentation, never alignment (after text).  This
way it always looks good for everyone's tab-space settings.  In the
very rare case I need alignment, I'll use spaces.  You are writing
code, after all, not designing a powerpoint presentation.

Henry