From:	sparhawk AT eunet DOT at (Gerhard Gruber)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: RHIDE 1.14 report
Date:	Fri, 20 Feb 1998 23:28:38 GMT
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Destination: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
From: Gruber Gerhard
Group: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 18:40:01 +0000:

>Gruber Gerhard <g DOT gruber AT sis DOT co DOT at> wrote:
>
>> When I switch to overwrite mode in RHIDE the behaviour is somewhat
>> annoying.
>> 
>> I have activated "optimal fill" and "use tabs" and I'm used to it, by
>> the Borland environment, that "optimal fill" is only applied to leading
>> blanks. Rhide takes it literally and fills also in between blanks. This
>> leads to the behaviour that if I
>> create commentlines for headers and switch to overwrite mode that tabs
>> get substituted by the characters I write (that's ok). BUT! :) this
>> means that characters at the end jump toward the lead because one tab
>> stands for multiple characters.
>[snip]
>
>Short solution:
>
>Create a pmacro with the comment and you'll get the exactly spaces that you 
>want. Read in the docs for it. I'll sugest you to download v2apps/edi0413b.zip 
>to get the last version of the help too.

Thanks. I have this files. I hope that there is also some info what a pmacro
is, because currently I don't have a clue. :)

>Long solution:
>
>Wait until I correct it and it will happen only if I finally think that it 
>won't affect other things.

Hmmm... That depends. :)

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best regards
   Gerhard Gruber

email: sparhawk AT eunaet DOT at
       g DOT gruber AT sis DOT co DOT at
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