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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdenonbeta/kio-rio
From:       Charles Samuels <charles () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-10-13 7:51:28
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On  Friday 13 October 2000 12:39 am, Michael Matz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Charles wrote:
> > > 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
> > work
>
> If used _only_ at the start of line, because otherwise the change of
> tab-width would screw the other text.
>
> > just fine if people actually used it properly.
>
> Everything works fine, if used properly ;-) In the context of using <tab>
> as indent character "properly" means "not at all". ;-))
No, just follow the simple rule.  One Tab, One Level.  and spaces if it's not 
used for indentation.

really not so difficult at all

-Charles

>
>
> Ciao,
> Michael.

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