On Sunday, 15 September 2013 at 17:18:21 UTC, Joseph Rushton
Wakeling wrote:
On 13/09/13 21:48, Namespace wrote:
Just out of interest.
I use Sublime 2, Notepad++ and as IDE currently Mono-D. But I
will try this
evening VisualD.
Vim, on Ubuntu. :-)
The actual reason is rather trivial. I've always favoured a
mixed tab-space indent style for code ("tabs for indentation,
spaces for alignment"), as described here:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SmartTabs
Unfortunately, most text editors don't seem to support this
very well any more.
In KDE 3 both Kate and KDevelop used to support it well, but
since KDE 4 came out it seems to have been dropped. If you
search "mixed tab-space indentation" you'll even come across a
rather forlorn post of mine from the time on the Ubuntu Forums
trying to sort this out:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1475867
Vim and Emacs seem to be the only editors where it's readily
possible to implement this these days, and vim is easier to
use, so it wound up being the only choice.
The irony is that given that standard D style is a 4-space
indent, these days I've turned off the mixed tab-space style,
for D at least ... but I'm still using vim, and I even find
myself accidentally hitting vim-style commands if I use another
editor to code.
I did go through a period of using CodeBlocks for my official D
contributions, with the 4-space style, and vim for my private
projects, with mixed tab-space style; but eventually I decided,
OK, D style is D style, follow the standard in all cases, and
just went to vim for everything.
I still do mixed tab-space for C/C++ though. Yes, I know.
Burn the witch. :-)
What do you use to do that in vim ? All my attempts did fail.
