Tabspaces.md

About

Useful extension if spaces are used instead of tabs in SciTE4AutoIt.

Current

v 0.2

Requires

CommonTools.lua

Usage

• Load the file with "SciTEStartup.lua"
• New entry in SciTEUser.properties:
  use.tabs.$(file.pattern.EXT)=0  or  use.tabs.EXT=0 .
  Don't use  use.tabs=0  !
  If the property is set to  >0  , the script will not respond. For use with values other than the default, see remarks.

Functions

Key Sequence	Single Caret	Rectangular Selection
Shift+Backspace	Delete chars from caret until previous tab position	The same in each line of selection. The rectangular selection remains after the operation.
Shift+Del	Delete chars from caret until next tab position	The same in each line of selection. The rectangular selection remains after the operation.
Alt+Arrow_Left	Skip to previous Tab position	--
Alt+Arrow_Right	Skip to next Tab position	--

Remarks

The default Tab size is 4. You can change this setting specified for your file types. The following properties need changes:

tab.size.$(file.pattern.EXT)=VALUE
indent.size.$(file.patterns.EXT)=VALUE

The (not file type specific) values:

tab.indents=1
backspace.unindents=1

should also set.
If  tab.indents  is set then pressing tab within indentation whitespace indents by indent.size rather than inserting a tab character. If  backspace.unindents  then pressing backspace within indentation whitespace unindents by indent.size rather than deleting the character before the caret.