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On 2016-11-22 13:47, Reimar Grabowski wrote: >> hahaha... I love how a con is “fundamentally different concept”. >> How is that a con? > > Fundamentally different to the way current IDEs/editors process their > text -> too much work for a feature no one gives a flying f**k > about. Got it? Yet probably the two most popular IDE's in the world (Eclipse and MS Visual Studio) both support Elastic Tabstop. :-/ And that's just two IDE's I know of. Some text editors (stand-alone or built into an IDE) have more advanced functionality than most people realise (or more features than what Lazarus's TSynEdit supports), but never realised the potential of taking advantage of those features - or thinking outside the box. Think about Syntax Highlighting. For decades everybody coded in plain 2-tone text, and everybody accepted it as the norm. Then somebody thought outside the box and implemented syntax highlighting to make it easier on the developer. Yet, Syntax Highlighting doesn't add any extra functionality to your code or the compiler - but does require a "fundamentally different concept and implementation". Now every text editor on the planet supports syntax highlighting and accepts that as the norm. The Elastic Tabstops implementation is actually pretty simple - way under a 100 lines of code. All that ET needs from a text editor is that they support multiple tabstop per line and where each tabstop can have a different width. Optionally (but preferred), also where tabstops are defined in pixels not x number of spaces (but this is not a requirement). ps: Apparently, according to Martin Friebe, implementing ET support in Lazarus is really simple. Bar the fact that it will use x number of spaces as indentation, not pixels. But I don't know enough of Lazarus's source editor and TSynEdit integration to know where to implement a TSynEdit line filter. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp _______________________________________________ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other
