[texworks] what do the tab-width and auto-indent GUI mean?

[kap4lin]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Stefan Löffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2009-12-06 08:44, kap4lin wrote:
>> Now, I am not able to figure out two of the settings under Edit >
>> Preferences > Editor:
>>
>> 1. Tab width (32 pt) -- I don't see any changes when 8 or 16 or 64 pt
>> is used? Is this the indent width? Pressing TAB always jumps 6
>> characters in the editor, no matter what this value is.
>>
>
> Yes, this is supposed to be a tab size. Unfortunately, it currently
> isn't working (thanks for noticing and reporting). I have just posted a
> patch to fix this, though (see
> http://code.google.com/p/texworks/issues/detail?id=89) which Jonathan
> hopefully commits to svn soon.
> BTW: It's supposed to read "px" instead of "pt" (this is also fixed by
> my patch). And it's not generally 6 characters, as you can also work
> with proportional fonts in the editor. It is indeed the amount it says
> it is, e.g. 32 px.

Ah, great. May be I should move to the trunk from the stable!

>> 2. Auto-indent mode: what do the three non-none options mean?
>>
>
> This depends on the content of your
> configuration/auto-indent-patterns.txt. The default options are:
> "Whitespace only"
> Whenever you hit the [Return] key to start a new line from a line that
> started with whitespace chars (space, tab), those whitespace chars will
> be copied to the beginning of the new line.
>
> "TeX comments"
> Same as "Whitespace only", but if you have one or more "%" (LaTeX
> comment chars) at the beginning of the old line they (and successive
> whitespaces) will be copied to the new line, too.
>
> "dtx prefixes"
> Same as "TeX comments" except that the comment char "%" is only copied
> if the line has certain formats. Most notably, if the comment starts
> with "\begin{macrocode}", no comment character will be added. This is
> intended primarily for LaTeX package & documentation writers, AFAIK.

Thanks, that explains a lot. It would be nice if the names reflected
this nesting...

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Kap4Lin
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