[viewvc-dev] Tab substitution (RFE)

Dear ViewVC Developers,

As closely as I can determine from looking at the output, and reading the code, tabs in ViewVC are
replaced (if at all) with eight spaces. If I am wrong on this, I would be pleased to be corrected.

Tabbing (since the invention of the typewriter) is a columnar operation, where the columns are usually
set at regular intervals. Most modern IDEs allow this to value to be selected, and the most frequent
default appears to be 4.

This means tabs should always generate at least one space, and then continue until the column count
is a multiple of the desired regular interval.

It would be a vast improvement reading code in ViewVC if it were possible to select this algorithm, and
to parameterize it with the positions of the tab stops (although for programming use, just a single
interval would suffice).

With thanks, Bruce

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Dr. Bruce K. Haddon                           [email protected]
Staff Engineer
Quality Assurance
Polycom, Inc.

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