On 5/10/09 at 8:38 AM, fri...@manoverboard.org (Fritz Anderson) wrote:
>On 10 May 2009, at 9:47 AM, Bruce Van Allen wrote:
>
>>1. What purpose does this serve?
>
>Given the emphasis on column 72, I assume he's coding FORTRAN,
>and needs to get to the line-sequence field. He wants to press
>a super-tab key, which will space-fill the line so the next
>character goes into column 72, like a tab stop in the control
>card on a keypunch. I seem to recall that TextMate has a
>similar feature (at least of moving the cursor to beyond EOL,
>and space-filling the difference).
>
>I don't think BBEdit has this feature, but so many people have
>confidently said BBEdit can't do something, and been proven
>wrong, I don't want to commit myself. My searches turned
>nothing up. I toyed with setting tab spacing to 72, and
>relying on the Detab command, but that's insane.
Thanks for this explanation. I don't know either if such a
function exists in BBEdit, but it would be trivial to script it
in Applescript. Then assign the script a keyboard command, maybe
Control-Tab, just to stick with the super-tab idea.
- Bruce
_bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_
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