[Patrick C]

Written on 2015-12-14 16:33

Having recently migrated from PSPad (for various reasons) my only and dearly
missed functionality are “smart tabs” or “smart spaces”, i.e.:

“TAB press will cause the cursor to follow words from previous line(s).”
(as in PSPad’s description)

***Example 1***
↑ indicates the cursor location

line1 does xyz1;    // comment 1
line2 does xyz2;    // comment 2
line three; // comment 3
            ↑

executing “smart_tab_forward.jsee”

line1 does xyz1;    // comment 1
line2 does xyz2;    // comment 2
line three;         // comment 3

***Example 2***
↑ indicates the cursor location

line1 does xyz1;    // comment 1
line2 does xyz2;    // comment 2
line three;            // comment 3
                       ↑

executing “smart_tab_backward.jsee”

line1 does xyz1;    // comment 1
line2 does xyz2;    // comment 2
line three;         // comment 3

Basically the tab is adapted according to the first previous line which delivers
a suitable tab anchor point (default is to consider the preceeding 20 lines).
It also works with multi-line selections.

Perhaps this is of use for someone.

Best wishes,

Patrick

PS Required files:

● smart_tab_forward.jsee
● smart_tab_backward.jsee
● calc_smart_tab_forward.jsee // contains a subfunction for smart_tab_forward.jsee
● calc_smart_tab_backward.jsee // contains a subfunction for smart_tab_backward.jsee

I tried to upload the files to the library but they didn’t show up yet.
You can also get them from Google Drive:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_K1c4Vc4qX2UXhjVkdUaGFpY3M/view?usp=sharing

[Patrick C]

PPS Thanks to Yutaka for the support!

[Patrick C]

Uploaded a new version (improved the backward tab behaviour).
The newest version will be posted under the same Google Drive link as above.

PS
I’ll no longer update the library, except if I can find out how to delete outdated code.

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