Text editor's "Tabs as Spaces" not respecting selected tab size (also, a text editor line height issue). #33180

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Cole Reed · 2012-11-15T04:04:20+01:00

Cole Reed commented

2012-11-15 04:04:20 +01:00

%%%The text editor when "Tabs as Spaces" is switch on the tab size is always 4 spaces regardless of the tab width setting.

Open the text editor, and open the text editor properties window.
Turn on "Tabs as Spaces"
Adjust the "Tab Width" Settings
Put your cursor in the text window and hit tab a few times, you will see that it always adds 4 spaces no matter what the tab width setting.

Second thing is that the line spacing in the text editor is very small (not referring to the font size, just the size between lines). You can see by the screen shot that characters actually touch in some cases, and I haven't been able to find a way to change this anywhere. I realize this is not really a bug, but I'm not sure what the proper channel is to report something like this. Is anyone in charge of general ui issues / roadmap kind of stuff?

System:
2010 Macbook Pro
OSX Mountain Lion
I have tested for the above in the official release - r51232, as well as from my own build of source at r51882%%%

%%%The text editor when "Tabs as Spaces" is switch on the tab size is always 4 spaces regardless of the tab width setting. 1. Open the text editor, and open the text editor properties window. 2. Turn on "Tabs as Spaces" 3. Adjust the "Tab Width" Settings 4. Put your cursor in the text window and hit tab a few times, you will see that it always adds 4 spaces no matter what the tab width setting. Second thing is that the line spacing in the text editor is very small (not referring to the font size, just the size between lines). You can see by the screen shot that characters actually touch in some cases, and I haven't been able to find a way to change this anywhere. I realize this is not really a bug, but I'm not sure what the proper channel is to report something like this. Is anyone in charge of general ui issues / roadmap kind of stuff? System: 2010 Macbook Pro OSX Mountain Lion I have tested for the above in the official release - r51232, as well as from my own build of source at r51882%%%

Cole Reed commented

2012-11-15 04:04:20 +01:00

Changed status to: 'Open'

Sergey Sharybin commented

2012-11-15 09:48:00 +01:00

%%%First issue is caused by internal design where tab width is just a display option, not text's property. This is already in our TODO list http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Source/Development/Todo/Editors#Text_Editor

Line spacing actually depends on font size, but probably there's some bug there or so. Perhaps not so difficult to improve this thing.%%%

%%%First issue is caused by internal design where tab width is just a display option, not text's property. This is already in our TODO list http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Source/Development/Todo/Editors#Text_Editor Line spacing actually depends on font size, but probably there's some bug there or so. Perhaps not so difficult to improve this thing.%%%

Ton Roosendaal commented

2012-11-15 13:25:14 +01:00

%%%The text display topic is nice for our new maintainer Justin :)%%%

Justin Dailey commented

2012-11-16 02:14:26 +01:00

%%%There is actually a patch in the patch tracker (http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=32927&group_id=9&atid=127) that hopefully will help with the tab width. :)

Line height issue fixed.
Committed r52264%%%

%%%There is actually a patch in the patch tracker (http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=32927&group_id=9&atid=127) that hopefully will help with the tab width. :) Line height issue fixed. Committed r52264%%%

Justin Dailey commented

2012-11-16 02:14:27 +01:00

Changed status from 'Open' to: 'Resolved'

Justin Dailey closed this issue

2012-11-16 02:14:27 +01:00

Cole Reed commented

2012-11-16 03:25:52 +01:00

%%%You guys are the best!%%%

Sergey Sharybin commented

2012-11-16 14:32:48 +01:00

%%%Justin, seems this commit introduced inconsistency to Y position of cursor and brackets highlight in cases word wrap is used. You can simply run Help -> System Info, open text block in text editor, enable word wrap and check cursor behavior at lines 13 and higher.%%%

Justin Dailey commented

2012-11-23 01:10:47 +01:00

%%%Thanks for catching that Sergey. I will definitely look into this issue. (I would have sooner but the notification email about your post got sent to my spam mail.)
%%%

%%%Thanks for catching that Sergey. I will definitely look into this issue. (I would have sooner but the notification email about your post got sent to my spam mail.) %%%

Sergey Sharybin commented

2012-11-23 08:30:06 +01:00

%%%Justin, apparently i've fixed that already, so no worries :)%%%

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Text editor's "Tabs as Spaces" not respecting selected tab size (also, a text editor line height issue). #33180