Folks,
In my on-going quest to get four spaces when I hit a TAB
in the IDL Workbench, I re****t some new information.
Thanks to Paul Krummel, I am now aware that there are
*two* places where you have set this up for yourself.
The first is under Preferences->General->Editors->Text Editors
and the second is under Preferences->IDL->Editor. I had a
mismatch between the number of spaces for tabs in those
two places. I think that has been *part* of the problem.
Alas, this doesn't solve the problem totally, either.
For example, with the new setup consistent as to number
of spaces for tabs, I want to edit a CASE statement. It
looks like this:
CASE mapIndex OF
0: Map_Set, ....
1: Map_Set, ...
ENDCASE
The CASE and ENDCASE are, in this instance, indented
three spaces, and the cases are indented three more
spaces. (This code was written back in my "3-space"
youth.)
I open up a new line between the two cases, and put
my cursor on the first character in the new open line.
If I hit a TAB now, I move over to the place where
I'm aligned with the numbers 0 and 1. That is six
spaces. (One might argue that this is where I want
to be, but leave that for a moment.) The next TAB
moves me two spaces. (To align with 8?) All subsequent
TABs now move me four spaces at a time.
Now, I admit this makes slightly more sense to me than
what I *used* to see, when the number of spaces appeared
to be totally arbitrary, but it is still *not* what I
want, which is four goddamn spaces when I hit a TAB.
If I sound grumpy it's just because I never expected
my beloved IDL to turn into Microsoft Word. :-(
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Se****e ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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