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From: SharkD
Subject: Request: text formatting options
Date: 7 Nov 2008 20:25:00
Message: <web.4914e9b8269b8cca1e79fb790@news.povray.org>
Dedicated text editors - such as SciTE, Emacs or Notepad++ - often have options
to format source code in various ways. You can do things such as changing
spaces to tabs or indenting code. I would like to request that the next version
of POV-Ray also have these features.

Thanks!

-Mike


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From: Chambers
Subject: Re: Request: text formatting options
Date: 7 Nov 2008 22:17:14
Message: <6F5E13FA5F524F69B1F59391D3AB293C@HomePC>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SharkD [mailto:nomail@nomail]
> Dedicated text editors - such as SciTE, Emacs or Notepad++ - often
have
> options
> to format source code in various ways. You can do things such as
> changing
> spaces to tabs or indenting code. I would like to request that the
next
> version
> of POV-Ray also have these features.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Mike

POV-Ray is a renderer, not a text editor.  That being said, the Windows
version (and, I believe, the Mac) already has such options available.

In addition, SciTE and Emacs have POV-Ray compatible syntax support.  I
don't know about Notepad++.

...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com


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From: SharkD
Subject: Re: Request: text formatting options
Date: 9 Nov 2008 03:40:00
Message: <web.4916a187fa23febbd79f8a540@news.povray.org>
"Chambers" <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote:
> POV-Ray is a renderer, not a text editor.

No, but it is an IDE, and it's pretty common for IDEs to have such options for
the types of source code they support... And, in case you haven't noticed, you
do in fact spend a lot of time editing text (POV-Ray SDL is stored in text
format), so it is in fact a text editor.

-Mike


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From: Chris B
Subject: Re: Request: text formatting options
Date: 9 Nov 2008 04:40:48
Message: <4916b020@news.povray.org>
"SharkD" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
news:web.4914e9b8269b8cca1e79fb790@news.povray.org...
> Dedicated text editors - such as SciTE, Emacs or Notepad++ - often have 
> options
> to format source code in various ways. You can do things such as changing
> spaces to tabs or indenting code. I would like to request that the next 
> version
> of POV-Ray also have these features.

As Ben mentioned, the POV-Ray Windows editor already has some of these 
features.

The editor preferences panel provides an option to change tabs to spaces 
while typing (though I don't see a 'spaces to tabs' option). The Text menu 
allows you to indent or unindent blocks of SDL. Another feature I find very 
useful in the Windows editor is the Ctrl-Click, which allows you to select 
columns of text and edit those selected columns (I usually use that for 
indentation rather than the indent option on the Text menu).

Regards,
Chris B.


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From: SharkD
Subject: Re: Request: text formatting options
Date: 9 Nov 2008 05:20:01
Message: <web.4916b914fa23febb1da2db9f0@news.povray.org>
"Chris B" <nom### [at] nomailcom> wrote:
> As Ben mentioned, the POV-Ray Windows editor already has some of these
> features.
>
> The editor preferences panel provides an option to change tabs to spaces
> while typing (though I don't see a 'spaces to tabs' option). The Text menu
> allows you to indent or unindent blocks of SDL. Another feature I find very
> useful in the Windows editor is the Ctrl-Click, which allows you to select
> columns of text and edit those selected columns (I usually use that for
> indentation rather than the indent option on the Text menu).
>
> Regards,
> Chris B.

OK, thanks. I didn't notice these until I checked again later.

-Mike


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