Re: [Nano-devel] Better tabstospaces support

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 10-05-18 om 12:42 schreef address@hidden:
> First of all, these new behaviours should only apply when:
> 1. ISSET(TABS_TO_SPACES)
> 2. Cursor is on a multiple of tabsize (0 is a multiple too)
> 3. All characters before cursor are spaces
> 
> Here's the list:
> 1. If there are >= tabsize spaces behind cursor,
>    Left should move cursor left by tabsize spaces
> 2. If there are >= tabsize spaces ahead of cursor,
>    Right should move cursor right by tabsize spaces.

What's the use case?  When do you want to go somewhere in the
middle of contiguous whitespace?  What do you want to do there?

> 3. If there are >= tabsize spaces behind cursor,
>    Backspace should remove tabsize spaces instead of just one.
> 4. If there are >= tabsize spaces ahead of cursor,
>    Delete should remove tabsize spaces instead of just one.

Use Shift+Tab instead.

Benno

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