On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 10:27:02AM -0700, Mark Waggoner wrote: > 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?
I like it a lot. I usually wind up just making the window huge and making the tabstops extra big, but variable width would be nice. > Mark Waggoner --Greg --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
