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Re: [platform-swt-dev] elastic tabstops implemented for SWT


Hi Nick -

Your demo looks interesting and it could a valuable option for Eclipse users. Just to confirm: the tabbing behavior is controlled by the context, right? If so, this would make its implementation language dependent - to get it working with the Java editor, you would need JDT support. Perhaps the JDT mailing list (jdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx ) would be more appropriate for this question.

Thanks,
Grant + Bogdan




From: "Nick Gravgaard" <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Eclipse Platform SWT component developers list." <platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 01/05/2010 12:42 PM
Subject: [platform-swt-dev] elastic tabstops implemented for SWT
Sent by: platform-swt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx





Hi everyone,

I'm the inventor of something called "elastic tabstops" (
http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/ includes a Java Swing applet demo). It has generally been favourably received and was recently adopted by Google in their new Go programming language for formatting code (http://golang.org/pkg/tabwriter/). I would like the functionality you can see in my Java Swing applet demo (tabstops move as user modifies text) to be available to Eclipse users (either as a plugin or built in).

I'm hoping that I can get a discussion started here on what the best way to implement this would be (performance is one of my main concerns), and maybe generate enough interest that some of you might be interested in helping me implement it. There was a missing feature (
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=279356) which was blocking me, but that's been resolved now.

Nick
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