[MPlayer-dev-eng] [bikeshed] Coding style

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 05:05:19PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 04:01:06PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> > 
> >> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
> >>> Most people who prefer tabs actually just do not want to have to
> >>> press the space bar many times and prefer pressing tab a few
> >>> times less instead.  Of course, a properly configured editor will
> >>> take care of this, but who uses such a thing...
> >> 
> >> Even using an editor which does that, I find tabs to be convenient,
> >> in that they allow me to jump back one level of indentation in
> >> existing code with one keypress rather than with multiple (one per
> >> space).
> > 
> > hitting tab moves to the next indent level
> 
> Only if you want to add another level of indentation - not if you just
> want to move to the next level of indentation in the existing code.
> 
> > hitting backspace moves to the previous one
> 
> Only if you want to remove a level of indentation - not if you just want
> to move to the previous level of indentation in the existing code.
> 
> > not sure if you want more?
> 
> I want to be able to move the (cursor, edit point, what-have-you) back
> to the previous (or up to the next) level of indentation all in one
> step, *without* changing the indentation. This is obviously not
> necessary, but I have found it a sufficiently nice convenience that it
> can be annoying to not have it available.

I know that at least mcedit can do this, and i think kwrite can not, sadly.

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