Re: Indent and text editors
- From: Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 19:14:26 -0900
I wouldn't use either as an editor for programming, so *shrug*
Notepad is okay for editing configuration files of various sorts, but
it just plain lacks features for programming. And at this point
WordPad is reaching the point of becoming Word Lite. :)
On 2/8/10, 1SmartDog@xxxxxxx <1smartdog@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Actually, the font settings are the same. I've just been doing more
> research. I downloaded both "Context" which is a programmer's text editor as
> well as Notepad++. JFW functions in both as it does in Notepad. Wordpad, it
> seems, is not a pure text editor but does insert RTF codes. JFW sees a tab
> in Wordpad as "tab" in the code. In the pure text editor it just sees
> spaces. I sure wish I could change it, though. I'd rather hear "tab" instead
> of the number of spaces.
>
> Thanks for the reply.
> Karen
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Soronel Haetir" <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 8:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Indent and text editors
>
>
>> My guess would be that this is due to how JAWS comes up with the
>> number. It doesn't (AIUI) actually extract the text, instead it looks
>> at the blank space and calculates how many spaces there are. I'm
>> guessing you use different font settings in the two editors.
>>
>> On 2/8/10, 1SmartDog@xxxxxxx <1smartdog@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I'm in a quandry over indent and text editors. Specifically, I'm looking
>>> at
>>> just Notepad and Wordpad. For programming, I want indents announced. In
>>> both
>>> these editors I've turned indents to announce. In Wordpad, what is
>>> announced
>>> is "left margin" "one tab" "two tabs", etc, which I like. In Notepad,
>>> lines
>>> which begin at the left margin are announced "one space" and tabs are
>>> announced as "7 spaces". I don't like the Notepad results. Any idea why
>>> they
>>> are different? Can I change this?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help,
>>> Karen
>>>
>>
>>
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