At 09:05 -0700 8/19/11, hermione_havanese wrote:
>How to make a feature request for moveable (variable) tab stops?
>
>I realize BBEdit is not a spreadsheet or word processor, but I find
>that wider tab stops can sometimes help with reading complicated (to
>me) code.
>
>Is there any reason not to allow this feature?
I second the motion. But I have asked for it before. The Bare Bones answer is
"We make text editors, not word processors."
I suspect that BBEdit is now well integrated with Apple-provided display of
text items with mousing around included. Evidence is that constant-width tab
stops are set using the View:Text Display:show Fonts menu. That sounds a whole
lot like X-code standard software tools to me.
This week my problem was a table of printed circuit board connections. The
columns were: device identifier that needed up to 8 characters, pin number with
a max of two digits, text defining the signal involved up to 20 characters but
usually less than 8, a comment field extending indefinitely.
BBEdit was useless. Using multiple tab characters between columns is not
acceptable to target software. The solution was Nisus 5.1 that runs fine on
this OS 9 box but doesn't work for me on OS 10. The comments nicely wrapped
into the last column when necessary because they would extend beyond the right
side of the page. I didn't waste a bunch of horizontal space for the pin number
column.
And. . . . Design of printed circuits is NOT a problem for a word processor.
It needs a text editor that honors conventions characteristic of a typewriter
or an 026 card punch.
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