Re: tab stops in different positions on different lines with GtkSourceView (or GtkTextView)

--- Paolo Borelli <[email protected]> wrote:
> On mar, 2007-01-09 at 22:37 +0000, Adam Tertial
> wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I want to do something a little unusual with
> > GtkSourceView (or failing that GtkTextView) - have
> tab
> > stops in different positions on different lines
> > ("paragraphs"). An example might be to have the
> first
> > line have tab stops at 4, 7, 13, 16 while the
> second
> > line has tab stops at 5, 10, 14, 17.
> > 
> > Is this possible in any way? - I can't see
> anything
> > apart from gtk_source_view_set_tabs_width(), and
> that
> > only takes a pointer to the control and one guint.
> > gtk_text_view_set_tabs ()
> 
> >From the API docs of GtkTextView:
> 
> "void        gtk_text_view_set_tabs         
> (GtkTextView *text_view,
>                                             
> PangoTabArray *tabs);
> 
> Sets the default tab stops for paragraphs in
> text_view. Tags in the
> buffer may override the default."
> 
> So it seems to imply that it is possible to do what
> you want with
> tags... dunno the details though :)

Yeah, I saw that, but can this be applied to a
GtkSourceView control somehow?



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