[fpc-pascal] FreePascal Coding style

[Florian Klaempfl]

Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
> On 21/01/2008, Vinzent Höfler <JeLlyFish.software at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> I'm breaking my own promise and replying again... :)
> 
> 
>>> I hope this will be my last reply.  Please take a look at the flash
>>> video on the ET website.
>> I don't have flash, so I am bound to check out the Java example.
> 
> Ask a friend, it's worth seeing..
> 
> 
>>> There he uses two editors (gvim and gedit).
>> With appropriate plugins/scripts, I suppose.
> 
> I guess, though his gedit plugin doesn't work with the latest gedit
> anymore. It seems gedit changed some or other API call (what I can
> gather from the console output error message).
> 
>> Yes, that's what I figured. What I don't get is how the editor extracts
>> the information _back_ from the file after the "tabstop" information has
>> been deleted (that's what it does once it gets replaced with spaces).
> 
> I don't know! It just does!  :-)  Actually on a serious note, it uses
> pixel calculations based on the ET parameters you can specify:
> MinimumWidth, PaddingWidth etc...  When viewed with a ET enabled
> editor, the text might shift by a few pixels (not spaces) but all
> alignment will still be intact. It's just that clever!  :)

Imo that plugin discussion is pretty useless. I'am coding in at least
four different editors pascal (fp ide, joe, lazarus, ultraedit) and I
fear there is no plugin for all editors I use :)