Change Tab Sizes in Forum Posts
John Colvin via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Oct 24 02:17:50 PDT 2014
On Friday, 24 October 2014 at 07:29:24 UTC, tcak wrote:
> Most of us print out codes in posts, especially D codes. I use
> tabs
> instead of spaces in my code editor, and I directly copy codes
> from there into a post. Problem is that when a line is too
> long, it
> becomes multiline mostly due to the very narrow width of pages
> (Forum
> takes half of my screen only.)
>
> One of the biggest reason in this problem is the width of tabs.
> They
> are just unbelievably wide.
>
> CSS has "tab-size" keyword that allows to change to with of
> tabs. So,
> if the CSS is to be updated for let's say 4 spaces for a tab,
> that
> will make codes much more good looking I think.
>
> Example:
> pre{
> tab-size: 4
> }
>
> Links:
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/tab-size
> http://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/t/tab-size/
I think the column limit for word wrapping should be increased to
at least 80
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