On Nov 11, 2008, at 8:56 AM, Rick Gutleber wrote:
>> I'd be happier using spaces if the editors I used would treat them
>> exactly like tabs. :) Some editors the kids are using these days
>> don't quite get how to do this. If it takes me 4 keystrokes to
>> cursor through an indent level, I'm back to tabs.
>
> That's a great idea. I'm sure any smart editor can be made to do
> that.
It should be universal by now, but it isn't. I was using editors back
in my DOS days that could do this, but it seems like half these spiffy
GUI IDEs I have to use can't. Grrr...
> For diffs I use this:
> alias svndiff='svn diff --diff-cmd /usr/bin/diff --extensions '\''--
> expand-tabs --ignore-all-space --ignore-blank-lines --ignore-space-
> change --minimal'\'' '
Hey, cool! I've been wishing for 'svn diff -w' since starting with
svn, and didn't see that I could get the feature externally. I'll
stick with 'svn diff' for day to day use, since I still want to know
about whitespace changes, but I've now got an sdw alias for when I
need to see past them:
alias sdw='svn diff --diff-cmd /usr/bin/diff --extensions -bdtuwB'
I added -u. I really like unified diffs.
> *Yes, I'm still wedded to doing editing in a Windows program, I've
> been using it since 1988, back when it was a simple DOS program
> written in Turbo Pascal, sorry, I've got too much momentum to get
> serious about learning vi for more than the basics.
I'm the same way about vi...which I've been using since before I got
into DOS. :)
