Re: [gedit-list] Feature request

[Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>]

Il giorno gio, 11/08/2005 alle 10.44 +1000, Tim Cleaver ha scritto:
> To the developers of gedit,
> 
> I use gedit a lot and think it is a great text editor. Thank you for
> the time you have spent creating it. I am not sure this is the right
> place to put forward a feature request but here goes anyways. (I have
> checked the help manual and could see no reference to this sort of
> functionality). I think it would be useful if different properties
> could be applied to different tab panes. For example, in one tab pane
> I might have c code and therefore not want text wrapping, set the tab
> to be 4 spaces etc, whereas in another I have a TeX document where I
> would prefer to have word wrapping and let tab spaces be tab spaces.
> In order to access tab specific properties there could be an
> additional item added to the menu when the tab is right clicked on.
> However, you might see this as bad HCI design and argue that I should
> have each open in a different instance of gedit.
> 

Hi Tim,

	sorry for the late response, I just got back from vacation.
I totally agree with you that we should make easier to tweak word
wrapping and other things per document. In fact we discussed it a few
times internally.
A menu item looks like the most obvious solution, but it has its
drawbacks. There are a couple of bugs in bugzilla.gnome.org discussing
this problem.

Hopefully we'll find a proper solution.


Thanks for using gedit!


ciao
	Paolo