Re: elastic tabstops implemented for GTK

[Alex Jones <alex weej com>]

On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 12:06 +0100, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> And how will this look e.g. to Python, which generally doesn't even like
> tabs?  Variable width tabs will likely cause havoc in Python programs...
As Nick said, Python is just fine with tabs!
> Now, if you did the exact same thing, but behind the scenes inserted
> spaces instead of tab characters, then it would be nice.
His GEdit plugin supports this, but it's a lossy conversion. When reading back the 0x20s, you have to try to figure out what was supposed to be a tab, and I'm sure you might get some false positives eventually, unless there's something I'm missing.

I really can't wait to get this functionality, it finally puts an end to all of the nonsense over how many spaces there should be in a tab!