Hi, I'm considering an alternative to the current tab behaviour in text frames. I'm tired of adding/removing tabs to keep adt declarations aligned, and I think the machine should do it, not me. Thus, for a experimental implementation for text frames I'm playing with now, I plan to implement tab handling as follows:
1. Tabs get a default width, say 4 chars, but their actual width depends on what is found on lines of text before and after the tab considered. That is, their width will grow to actually tabulate the text shown. For example, the tabs in a \t b c \t d e \t f \t g will make three aligned columns, no matter the widths of a ... g. 2. Tabs right after a new line will be a exception in that why will have a fixed width and will not be subject to this rule. One minor detail is that my aim is to make empty lines boundaries regarding tabulation, so that not all the file has to be tabulated according to the same widths. I'd like to hear what others think regarding this behaviour before actually implementing it. thanks
