[brlug-general] Text editor that keeps tabs

[Joe Fruchey]

Thanks, everybody. gedit it is. I didn't even consider checking the
options. Looks like gedit will do everything I want.

I'm going to check out Bluefish though...

On 5/27/06, Will Hill <williamhill2 at cox.net> wrote:
> It's hard to think of an editor that does not have that functionality but
> sometimes it has to be enabled.  Kate, under settings>configure
> kate>indentation, gives you a choice of automatic indentation styles, none,
> normal, c, python, xml and others.  Gedit does exactly what you want, if you
> enable automatic indentation under edit>preferences>editor.  Both offer
> syntax highlighting by file type.  Notice that you can chose your indentation
> style independently of syntax highlight style in kate.  Specific editors,
> such as Bluefish for html, has the behavior you want by default and are often
> better than a general purpose editor.
>
> On Saturday 27 May 2006 09:44 pm, Joe Fruchey wrote:
> >... I fell in Love with Notepad2 in Windows with its syntax
> > highlighting, but mostly the 'tab keeping,' that is, if you indent a
> > line and press enter, the next line starts at the same tab mark
> > instead of at the beginning.
> >
> > There has to be a Linux editor with that functionality, right?
> >
>
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