Hello, dear community. I have recently been in contact with Nick Gravgaard, the developer of elastic tabstops (http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/). When I asked him whether or not this idea might be implemented in VIM, he told me that the main obstacle was that, to quote him directly: "Unfortunately, as far as I know VIM does not provide a way for vim scripts to set non-uniform tabstops on different lines, which is a pre-requisite for a good implementation of elastic tabstops."
He went on to say that: "The best strategy would be to ask for the ability to set non-uniform tabstops on different lines, rather than asking for elastic tabstops specifically. This functionality allows elastic tabstops to be implemented but can also be used to implement many other features." I am aware that elastic tabstops is not something many people use (yet). Still, for me it is a very nice feature to use with a gedit plugin, but since my favourite editor is vim, I was hoping that support for this might appear here, in the form of introducing non-uniform tabstop support. Since my programming skills are below pathetic, I can't really contribute anything, but was hoping someone with more knowledge about the VIM source code might. All the best, Thomas Banner PS: Thanks for keeping such a wonderful editor alive. -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
