Try set TabWidth=4 in the config, restart J so it picks up the setting, then in the terminal:
(TAB,'123') fwrite '~temp/t1.ijs' In the editor, open the script and it should show 4 spaces before the '123'. On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 5:46 AM Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote: > Under Edit/Configure/QT ide I found TabWidth. It was blank. I assigned it a > value of 2. Then edited a file and put a tab at the beginning. It showed up > as one space in the editor but when I loaded the script and viewed it the > tab took 2 spaces. It was still a tab. It was not converted to spaces. > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 8:44 PM Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks, Chris. > > > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 2:34 PM, chris burke <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > menu Edit|Configure|Qt Ide, set TabWidth. > > > > > > The Format in the base config is for formatting the code, see the > > > Script|Format menu. > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 6:07 AM Ian Clark <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > I use hard-TAB extensively to format my code: a habit I'm trying to > > kick… > > > > > > > > How do I alter the width of the whitespace resulting from TAB in jqt? > > It > > > > seems to be different in j807 and j806 (or else there's a setting I'm > > > > missing). And it's not a whole number of spaces in either, but > that's a > > > > side-issue. > > > > > > > > Ditto, how do I get the tab key to write 6 spaces instead? > > > > > > > > I've tried altering (as instructed) the assignment to Format in menu > > > > Edit > Configure > Base > > > > but it doesn't seem to do anything. > > > > > > > > JVERSION > > > > Engine: j807/j64nonavx/darwin > > > > Beta-e: commercial/2018-05-25T12:55:54 > > > > Library: 8.07.16 > > > > Qt IDE: 1.7.1/5.9.5 > > > > Platform: Darwin 64 > > > > Installer: J807 install > > > > InstallPath: /applications/j64-807 > > > > Contact: www.jsoftware.com > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
