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-----Original Message-----
From: Valentin Kipiatkov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 10:41 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Eap-list] Smart tabs?
Actually, we are just not aware of how many users would like this feature
(considering that would take some efforts to implement it). I see 2 messages
in the list that support this idea. Anyone else?
Best regards,
Valentin Kipiatkov
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Singer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Eap-list] Smart tabs?
> We need this! It could be one of the outstanding small features in IDEA,
> that no other IDE or editor has and you would not like to live without it
> any more if you had them in the past.
>
> IntelliJ, please give it a try! I believe, it can't be that difficult to
> detect wrapped lines.
>
> Tom
>
>
> At 10:42 14.02.02 -0500, you wrote:
> >+1! I think your idea, Tom, is absolutely excellent. Right on! I think
I
> >have even proposed your idea before to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I
got
> >no feedback. You describe the solution very well with your illustration.
I
> >get into these annoying debates with someone I work with about tabs
versus
> >spaces and it is tiresome. My co-worker thinks everyone should conform
to
> >spaces since tab-formatted source looks inconsistent. I argued that the
> >problem is not with tabs themselves but that development tools are not
smart
> >about when to ommit tabs and when to ommit spaces instead! IDEA may have
a
> >smart editor, but I haven't seen any editor that has any intelligence
when
> >it comes to tabs versus spaces. They just have an option to ommit one or
> >the other, regardless of context, and that's it. What's needed is more
than
> >this. Your excellent idea Tom *AND* having the editor recognize that a
> >source file uses either tabs or spaces at the vicinity of text entry and
do
> >the right thing depending on wether it found any tabs within, say, 5
lines
> >up or down of where the user hits the tab key. Sure... it isn't trivial
for
> >IntelliJ to put forth the effort to go above and beyond the typical
editor;
> >but then again, that's why I've paid them $400.
> >
> >~ Dave Smiley
> > MITRE
> >
> > > Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:16:59 +0100
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > From: Thomas Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Subject: [Eap-list] Smart tabs?
> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > Hello IntelliJ,
> > >
> > > I proposed from time to time, that IDEA should have an option for
smart
> > > tab-placements. What do you think about it?
> > >
> > > For all, that can't remember, what I meant, I 'll explain in short.
Assume
> > > following code:
> > >
> > > private int test(String value1,
> > > String value2) {
> > > return getValue(value1,
> > > value2);
> > > }
> > >
> > > I want to get following use of spaces and tabs (tabs are marked as
"|->"
> > > and spaces as "." where important; 4 spaces per tab):
> > >
> > > |-->private int test(String value1,
> > > |-->.................String value2) {
> > > |-->|-->return getValue(value1,
> > > |-->|-->................value2);
> > > |-->}
> > >
> > > and now, viewed with 8 spaces per tab:
> > >
> > > |------>private int test(String value1,
> > > |------>.................String value2) {
> > > |------>|------>return getValue(value1,
> > > |------>|------>................value2);
> > > |------>}
> > >
> > > Advantages: everything, that is in one column, remains in one column.
You
> > > can view this code with any spaces-per-tab-settings you prefer, it
always
> > > looks good.
> > >
> > > To get this, only some rules are necessary:
> > >
> > > 1) Each non-wrapped line is indented with tabs.
> > > 2) Each wrapped line takes the tab-indentation from the last
non-wrapped
> > > one and fills the rest with spaces!
> > > 3) Tabs are only valid before the left non-white-space character.
Pressing
> > > the tab key, lets say after "getValue(value1,|" always inserts spaces,
> > > never tabs!
> > >
> > > I hope, that IDEA would have this smart indentation engine. I believe,
it
> > > even would help SUN to layout their sources (having a look into the
> > > Jdk-Sources with a tab setting different than 8 is terrible).
> > >
> > > Tom
> >
> >
> >
> >
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