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Re: Indenting Emacs Lisp only with tabs?


From: Joost Kremers
Subject: Re: Indenting Emacs Lisp only with tabs?
Date: 3 Sep 2009 18:46:32 GMT
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B Smith-Mannschott wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:11, Joost Kremers<joostkremers@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Elena wrote:
>>> For a glimpse of indentation with pixel precision, look here (Java
>>> plugin required):
>>>
>>> http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/
>>
>> huh? when i remove or insert a TAB, the text is jumping all over the place! 
>> how
>> could anyone *want* this?
>
> Of course it works differently than you are used to! That doesn't
> automatically make it unusable.

well, the thing that i don't like about it is that when i insert or delete a tab
or some text, not only text on the line i'm on moves, but text on other lines
moves as well. that's insanely annoying... 

> What's interesting about the elastic tab stops proposal is that it
> allows for arbitrary fonts without killing the ability to communicate
> by aligning related things vertically.

until someone who prefers monospaced fonts wants to look at your code...


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Joost Kremers                                      joostkremers@yahoo.com
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