Comments on: tabinta: Insert “Tabs” in TEXTAREA Fields Instead of Moving Next

By: Ramesha

Ramesha — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:12:17 +0000

“Test’ ‘ (white spaces )”
Because the white spaces disappears. Tabs does not work either.

how can we solve below problem
If we enter text with tab and white spaces as shown above ,both tabs and whit spaces disappears

By: Ramesha

Ramesha — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:09:42 +0000

sdfh sadfasdf

afsdf asd

sdf asdfasdf
asdfsda

By: Joshua

Joshua — Tue, 08 May 2007 13:00:51 +0000

Scott, I’m of the opposite side of that argument.

Tabs have an advantage of spaces to me, that I can customize them. If I like 3 spaces, 4 spaces, 8 spaces, even 20 spaces. If you work in tabs, then I can easily change your code to be comfortable to read by my standard. It may look “messed up” to you, but the person reading it will have been used to that style, so I will look right to them.

Good call with the autoindent though, that would be really handy. Hmm…if we go that far, maybe some syntax highlighting in the TA…

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:38:53 +0000

Sounds like this could come in handy. However, I think that spaces are preferable to tabs when it comes to programming. Thing is, you can never count on the tab size in whatever editor someone is using, so stuff using tabs often looks wrong (unless you can convince everyone to configure their editors the same). But if you use spaces, you don’t have any problems.

What I think would be cool would be an autoindent plugin.