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

["Nick Gravgaard" <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Grant + Bogdan,

I'm not sure what you mean. I think elastic tabstops are a generic
editor feature in the same way that conventional fixed tabstops are.
They are useful in Java, C, Python and apparently Go (and probably other
languages) as well as in good old text files and are handy when editing
and viewing tab separated database dumps or just lining up tabular data.
With this in mind I thought the text editing widget would be the place
(rather than anything Java specific), hence my posting to this list.

Does that make sense?
Nick


On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:52 -0500, "Bogdan Gheorghe" <gheorghe@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 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:
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> "Eclipse Platform SWT component developers list." 
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> Date:
> 01/05/2010 12:42 PM
> Subject:
> [platform-swt-dev] elastic tabstops implemented for SWT
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> 
> 
> 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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