Master Your Documents: Advanced SmartTabs and Customizable Spaces in EmEditor’s Text Editor

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• December 14, 2015 at 7:26 am #20532
  Patrick C
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  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%5FK1c4Vc4qX2UXhjVkdUaGFpY3M/view?usp=sharing
December 14, 2015 at 7:44 am #20534
Patrick C
Participant
PPS Thanks to Yutaka for the support!
December 15, 2015 at 12:33 am #20539
Patrick C
Participant
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I’ll no longer update the library, except if I can find out how to delete outdated code.

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