Bug 465886 – app-editors/joe-3.7-r2: tabs looks shorter than normal

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Pacho Ramos 2013-04-14 10:34:47 UTC]

After updating to latest revision, tabs looks shorter than normal to me (comparing with old joe, gedit or even less, for example)

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Pacho Ramos 2013-04-14 10:35:15 UTC]

Created attachment 345538 [details]
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[Comment 2 Tom Knight (RETIRED) 2013-04-14 12:20:22 UTC]

This is by design, I changed the ftyperc for ebuilds and eclasses so that it fits with the devmanual: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html#indenting-and-whitespace

If you prefer the old functionality you can copy /etc/joe/ftyperc to ~/joe/ftyperc and remove the -tab 4 line for ebuilds and eclasses.

[Comment 3 Pacho Ramos 2013-04-14 12:44:05 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> This is by design, I changed the ftyperc for ebuilds and eclasses so that it
> fits with the devmanual:
> http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html#indenting-
> and-whitespace
> 
> If you prefer the old functionality you can copy /etc/joe/ftyperc to
> ~/joe/ftyperc and remove the -tab 4 line for ebuilds and eclasses.

Do you have any idea about why devmanual states a tab = 4 spaces? Looks like joe is now the only editor respecting that rule :/

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2013-04-14 12:49:33 UTC]

It's because looks really "strange" to me to edit an ebuild and see it looking different that what will really be written when, for example, simply running "cat" :/