On 28 May 2010 18:15, waldo kitty wrote: > > i don't know if i can retrain my thumb to hit the TAB instead of the space > bar as it has been trained to do these past 30+ years i've been coding :? :P
:-) The sad thing is, the Tab key was invented for indentation and alignment, yet Pascal and many other languages refrain from using that key. I really think it's the limitations of the editors that forced us to start using the spaces bar to align and indent. Word Processors have variable width tabstops, elastic tabstops do the same as word processors but tuned for programming - it just makes more logical sense to use the tab character correctly. And obviously Programming Editors need to get with the times. Limited to mono fonts and fixed width tabs are getting rather old - imagine MS Word or OpenOffice Writer still had those limitations. :-/ -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
