Plain Old Editor

[hutch--]

 

Embedding tabs ensures that the text will display badly on just about every editor ever written. Fine in a dedicated tool and if it works for you, great, but its hardly a model for anything else.

[jj2007]

Actually, my tabs display just fine in qEditor

However, there is still no scientific consensus

programmers that used spaces made an average of 9% more than coders who used tabs
...
Bill Gates, the most famous coder of all time, prefers tabs, and he has a net worth of around $89.2 billion

[hutch--]

 

A case of the application of Occams razor. 

[zedd151]

Actually, my tabs display just fine in qEditor

Coincidentally, qEditors 'tabs' display fine in Notepad, as well as Wordpad.    And woud likely display fine in RichMasm as well. 
I say po-tay-toe, you say po-tah-toe. 

When I open a asm source file (or any other file ftm) with 'hard tabs' (09h), I immediately convert all of those to spaces with my UnTab qeditor plugin

[jj2007]

A case of the application of Occams razor. 

Exactly: the simpler solution should be preferred. I need only one keystroke to insert a perfectly aligned comment

[zedd151]

Exactly: the simpler solution should be preferred.

Exactly.    Plain ascii text. And use a tried and trued version of Rich Edit…  Simpler.    At least you dont have to fight with Rich Edit versions to 'make' them work properly, as the bugs in the older Rich Edit are well known. 
http://masm32.com/board/index.php?topic=5383.0   

[jj2007]

You are confused, Z: I meant simpler for the user, not for the designer of the editor

[zedd151]

You are confused, Z: I meant simpler for the user, not for the designer of the editor

    Mary Xmas. 

[hutch--]

jj,

Where we differ is in something very fundamental, the idea of automated actions combining a number of things together. While it is no big deal to auto-format in much the same way as the old GFABASIC editor, long ago I learnt that it comes with a multitude of evils. When it does something that you don't want, you have to try and undo it and with auto formatting, that is not always an easy task.

I wanted back then a pure ASCII editor which I eventually wrote that was entirely free of automated actions. My later editors all have the same brain, NO automated combined actions, each user choice is a separate action, not something the editor overrides. A liking for pure ASCII characteristics delivers a predictable and reliable means of writing code.

Now they do have a few tricks, block indent, tabs replaced with spacers and a reliable autoindent that does what it was designed to do, indent the following line with the same indent as the current one.

[daydreamer]

You are confused, Z: I meant simpler for the user, not for the designer of the editor

Thanks, now I got idea of make it easier for user make a tile editor on top of my ascii encoded levels so far,only edited with ascii editor so far
Hutch in some projects I prefer unicode caps editor,few bytes unicode characters instead of include icons and bitmaps, but seeing I coded right Chinese character is easier, than encoded dw 4123h,later might need to correct those numbers if it shows completely wrong characters