From kde-commits  Fri Oct 13 06:23:09 2000
From: Charles <charles () altair ! dhs ! org>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 06:23:09 +0000
To: kde-commits
Subject: Re: kdenonbeta/kio-rio
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On  Thursday 12 October 2000 09:28 pm, Michael Matz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Charles wrote:
> > > I'll only deal with one of your points:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Ok.
> >
> > Fair enough.
> >
> > But then, none of what you said works if you just read the code examp=
le
> > at the very bottom of my page.
>
> parsing error. In what way can anything I said "work"? Or do you mean,
> that now you can't simply reindent by changing the tabwidth? No, of cou=
rse
> not, because tabwidth is eight, and not changeable ;)
>
> What you seem to want is a character <ind> with a semantic like "only
> usable as the first characters of a line, and moving the cursor
> <indent-with> characters to the right". This would indeed be a useful
> character, but unfortunately <tab> isn't quite that thing, although
> sometimes used like it.
tab is exactly that cursor, when used at the start line, and it would wor=
k=20
just fine if people actually used it properly.

>
>
> Ciao,
> Michael.