<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Chris Muller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:asqueaker@gmail.com" target="_blank">asqueaker@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">>> Not sure, it seems just as likely to want to select entire multi-line<br>
>> expressions and wnat to replace them iwth new expressions, starting<br>
>> with a Tabular indentation...<br>
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> You can always use Delete or Backspace to delete the selection.<br>
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</span>So could Eliot when he wanted to replace interior text with a Tab.<br>
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Instead, the Indentation command has been made _very_ obscure, because<br>
Eliots condition seems exactly reverse of what it should be. When I<br>
use indentation, I do a sloppy-swipe (middle to middle) of the lines I<br>
want to indent and press Tab. That's a fair response because no one<br>
ever puts Tab characters in the middle of a word of a line. However,<br>
people DO want to type tabs _between_ words, or at the _beginning_ of<br>
lines.<br>
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Eliot, I'm quite curious about your use-case, are you doing a<br>
text-based report with columns? </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Formatting case statements.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">If we flipped around your condition<br>
would it still work for you?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No it wouldn't. If I type a tab to replace the selection I mean to replace the selection with a tab. How else is one supposed to get a tab into the middle of a line, select,copy,paste?? </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>Look, my change makes typing a tab in the middle of a line do what one would expect, insert a tab. It /does not/ prevent anyone from defining Ctrl-tab or Shift-tab to indent our outdent if they want that. But _one should be able to easily type a tab in the middle of a line with a text editor_, period.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:small;border-collapse:separate"><div>_,,,^..^,,,_<br></div><div>best, Eliot</div></span></div></div></div>
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