Hello IntelliJ,
any comment from your point of view?
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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