Re: Emulated Tabs

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Aaron W. Hsu wrote:
>
> I notice a strange behavior in a recent CVS version of NEdit. When I
> have hard tabs set to 8, and emulated tabs set to 4, and then I also
> have checked the box to use hard tabs in emulation and blocks, I get
> some strange behavior.

Personally I've never used the checkbox "Use tab characters in..."
simply because I don't understand it. If I'm using "Emulated tabs",
doesn't an option to use hard tab characters exactly contradict that?

My feeling here is that 1 of 3 things is going on:
1. This dialog box is perfectly clear and I'm just a dense user.
2. The dialog box is not clear but in reality (in the code) what
happens is perfectly okay. This post by Aaron I think contradicts this
option.
3. The dialog box is clear - but the specification behind it isn't,
leading to buggy (unclear) implementation, since pretty much by
definition when the spec is blurry the implementation probably won't
do what everyone expects all of the time. IMHO this is what is going
on here, and Aaron's email (and further replies) seem to indicate this
is the case.

Personally, except for Make files, I never use tabs for indentation,
only emulated tabs. But I understand some users do use tab stops.
However even for them, I don't understand why the single checkbox
"Emulated tabs" is not enough. Either you turn on Emulated tabs or you
turn them off. Why isn't it as simple as that?

Regards.
-- 
Offer Kaye
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