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

[mozer]

This should be a Guild[*] problem

Same here

+1

Xmlizer

[*] http://xmlguild.org

2014-03-14 8:38 GMT+01:00 Jirka Kosek <jirka at kosek.cz>:
> +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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