Lister: Tabs in text files

JFierce7 · Post by *JFierce7 » 2006-11-27, 13:06 UTC

Tabs in text files are always accounted for a with of 8. It would be great if this could be configured!

A bug occurs with line length for wrapping - here, tabs are accounted for 1 char, which leads to problems if the line end shall be shown. The visible area is calculated wrongly.

(So this is actually a bug and a feature request!)

Valentino · Post by *Valentino » 2006-11-27, 13:11 UTC

2JFierce7
From help:

[Lister]
TabWidth Width of tabstops (default: 8 )

What I don't understand is why it's not in the Options (it should be configured manually in the INI file)

JFierce7 · Post by *JFierce7 » 2006-11-27, 13:18 UTC

Valentino wrote:What I don't understand is why it's not in the Options (it should be configured manually in the INI file)

Whoops, sorry. Had only looked in the options. So, yes, this should be in the Options. It could be necessary, to change it quickly a couple of times for different files.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2006-11-27, 20:41 UTC

A bug occurs with line length for wrapping - here, tabs are accounted for 1 char, which leads to problems if the line end shall be shown. The visible area is calculated wrongly.

Unfortunately TC would have to read the entire file to find out the length of the longest line. Therefore it isn't done.

wanderer · Post by *wanderer » 2006-11-27, 21:57 UTC

Valentino wrote:2JFierce7
From help:
[Lister]
TabWidth Width of tabstops (default: 8 )
What I don't understand is why it's not in the Options (it should be configured manually in the INI file)

Good question indeed. I didn't know there was an ini option for it (and i automatically assumed there wasn't - my mistake). It should be in the Options.

Valentino · Post by *Valentino » 2006-11-28, 08:17 UTC

Lister's Options dialog is quite small (and too dense in my opinion) so it can be easily increased to hold several additional settings that are currently set via INI file only.

BTW, "Load bitmaps as graphics at startup" (BmpStartup) also enables/disables plugins at startup. I think it should be mentioned both on dialog and in Help. E.g. "Show bitmaps or activate plugins at startup".

JFierce7 · Post by *JFierce7 » 2006-11-28, 09:41 UTC

ghisler(Author) wrote:Unfortunately TC would have to read the entire file to find out the length of the longest line. Therefore it isn't done.

So it's actually because Lister doesn't care that a Tab is a Tab in this context?

Okay, however, what I don't understand is, that you need to know the Tabs for displaying the lines. Couldn't this information be used then in wrapping? Only the line lengths in the visible buffer are needed, aren't they?