[oXygen-user] Lobbying for a new feature to save on indentation

[Jirka Kosek]

+1 for such option

I use such layout for XSLT files and it takes too much manual tweaking
to preserve such indentation when editing in oXygen.

Jirka

On Sat, Mar 1, 2014, at 14:32, G. Ken Holman wrote:
> Fellow oXygen users,
> 
> I've just learned that a request for a new feature I made long ago is 
> getting stale because not enough people have expressed an interest in 
> having it added to the software.
> 
> Perhaps this is because people haven't considered how helpful it 
> might be, so I thought I would lobby here that if you like the idea 
> of this feature you might vote for it as well.
> 
> In all my SGML and XML editing it has been my preference to keep 
> children of the document element un-indented and flush left, starting 
> the indentation only with the grandchildren of the document 
> element.  I see no utility in indenting the children of the document 
> element since it is unambiguous if an element at the left edge is a 
> document element or not:  if there is element or text content before 
> the start tag or after the end tag, then the element must not be the 
> document element.
> 
> It may not sound like saving one indent is a lot, but consider the 
> file size since that one indent is saved on *every* line.  Also, it 
> saves one indent for those of our files (in particular the XSL-FO 
> files I review by eye to debug) are indented way over to the wrap
> position.
> 
> The software currently indents children of the document element using 
> the preference for indent width ... I suggest a new preference 
> checkbox (by default set one way or the other to preserve existing 
> behaviour), where the user can indicate the preference such that 
> indentation starts with descendants of children of the document 
> element, thus putting those children of the document element at 
> column 1 of the line.  I'll let the software designers decide what 
> wording to use and whether the box is checked or not as the default 
> to preserve existing behaviour.
> 
> Please send your interest to <support at oxygenxml.com> rather than to 
> this mail list, so that it gets properly recorded and doesn't clog up 
> threads here.
> 
> Thanks for listening!
> 
> . . . . . . . . . Ken
> 
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