PureBasic Forums - English

I'd like the editor to ure REAL tabs spacing, not just a couple of spaces...
As you may know, it's a normal feature in all common text editors, and many times it's optional too...

RichEdit controls support real tabs.

Use SendMessage_ with #EM_SETPARAFORMAT and PARAMFORMAT2

More information on parameters and commands are here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau ... format.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau ... ormat2.asp

A good startingpoint coult be the linenumbering thread
viewtopic.php?t=13467

Sorry i can't give you examples at the moment cause I'm in a hurry.
Maybe I can tell you more in a few hours...

sverson

Thanks, but I meant the PB editor, the one you use to write code, not the editor gadget...

It would be a good idea to have that, in JapBe too if possible (well, i'm not sure Scintilla supports tabs)

whats wrong with the tabs in japbe?

isnt that just an xp style feature?

As an idea should be to add a Spin Gadget in the Editor preferences for "number of spaces per TAB"

What i would want is just a tab like in other programs, a tab is a tab, not a few space, i don't know why purebasic does that, but i hope fred can replace it, it's faster to delete one tab than 2+ spaces

i get it sorry didnt understand

Polo, a TAB is usually 8 or 9 spaces. But there are no standards for it. Each text editor treats differently the TAB key.
Bests editors allow to user to customize that key and/or that ascii value (9)

A real TAB would be great, its the only thing I don't like about the editor - everything else is great!

-Anthony

Psychophanta -> But i think Purebasic adds 2 or 3 spaces, not really sure thought...

Polo wrote:Psychophanta -> But i think Purebasic adds 2 or 3 spaces, not really sure thought...

PB Editor converts the tab key input to 2 spaces (it outputs $2020).
As i said before, the idea should be TAB key input to be customizable by PB editor. I mean convert it to a given "selectable" number of space characters.

Psychophanta wrote:As i said before, the idea should be TAB key input to be customizable by PB editor. I mean convert it to a given "selectable" number of space characters.

???

In the File->Preferences window there is an option to set how many spaces in a tab there are.

I'd quite like the option of using either method, but it typically ends up being a mess, depending on how the editor works. Quite a few seem to get confused and then end up mixing spaces and tabs, which of course goes horribly wrong when someone with a different tab length views your code.

tinman wrote:In the File->Preferences window there is an option to set how many spaces in a tab there are.

Wooops! There is.

Blade, Polo, DoubleDutch,
You see? So the solution was before the request this time.

tinman wrote:I'd quite like the option of using either method, but it typically ends up being a mess, depending on how the editor works. Quite a few seem to get confused and then end up mixing spaces and tabs, which of course goes horribly wrong when someone with a different tab length views your code.

Totally agree.
And of course I use always 2 spaces per TAB, the default option.

But what i would like is real tabs A tab is a tab, no ?