Convert tabs to spaces.

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Jun 16 2004, 12:35 pm
Would it be possible for the forum to convert all tabs within dm tags to a couple of spaces. I've noticed myself basically ignoring code questions where the codes strays too far off to the right because of the HUGE tabs. I'm used to my 2-space tabs. :P

I suppose I could copy and paste the code to DM to read over it, but being generally lazy, thats probably not going to happen. I've actually started feeling bad about skipping questions like this, and have tried to force myself to answer them anyway, but it's tough :P
Jun 16 2004, 5:28 pm
Shortening it to just a couple spaces is a bit much, but I agree that it is currently a bit too much space as it is. I use 4 space tabs in DM, and I think that is what most people use (I think that is the default). Perhaps somewhere from 3 to 5 in the forum would be good. However, I am also assuming that changing the tab size is no small matter, something that cannot be done short of making a new text exitor for it (unless there is some parameter in whatever browser language used, I don't know much beyond basic HTML and can only hypothesize).

As for feeling lazy, don't. I skip over questions all the time that I don't feel like answering, usually because the person posts 200 lines of code when only 10 were relevant. I also completely ignore posts whose topic titles don't describe their content ("HELP PLEASE" is not a topic). There is nothing wrong with that, you don't have to help every single person. Besides, many others are around to help so you can slack off as much as you want. If you don't help someone else probably will.
Jun 16 2004, 6:47 pm
In response to Loduwijk
Loduwijk wrote:
Shortening it to just a couple spaces is a bit much, but I agree that it is currently a bit too much space as it is. I use 4 space tabs in DM, and I think that is what most people use (I think that is the default).

2-space tabs are the default, last I checked, but I'm not totally certain about that.
Jun 16 2004, 7:27 pm
In response to Spuzzum
I'm pretty sure 4 spaces is the default... *shrug*

Yeah, better tab support would be nice, but I'm not sure how you could do this without sacrificing useability; some people deliberately format things with tabs so that they can be copied and pasted, after all. So unless the tab size can be changed via HTML (which I somehow doubt, unless there's some obscure CSS thing that does it), there would have to be a toggle for it or something.
Jun 16 2004, 9:22 pm (Edited on Jun 17 2004, 10:16 pm)
In response to Crispy
a little hack in the forum code that says 'if there are 4 or more spaces in a row (or n-number of tabs depending on how the HTML is rendered), then replace them with 2 spaces (or whatever preference the user has)' would be the quick-n-dirty solution. I did that with a phpBB forum mod a while back, and it worked pretty well.