I've asked Bram in the past whether he would add this to the voting list. The best I've been able to get is "I'll think about it" :) Perhaps if I throw the idea out to the mailing lists I can garner a little support.
When editing or viewing text files that contain data with fields separated by tab characters, I would like to be able to set non-uniform tabstops. This would allow the text to be viewed and edited in a much more readable/understandable format than fixed tabstops can provide. The usage model I envision is: set tabstop=8,10,4,20,8 This would make (depending on how you are counting) the first tabstop at character 9, the second at character 19, the third at 23, the fourth at 43, and the fifth at 51. Tabstops beyond those explicitly specified would repeat the last tabstop, making the setting backward compatible with what we have today, where only one value is allowed and it is used for all the tabstops. Anyone else care to join me in voting to add this to the voting options? Mark Waggoner (I'm trying out mailing to the list with gmail for the first time. If this ends up "ugly", my apologies.) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
