Back Spacing over Tabs

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ferghus
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Back Spacing over Tabs

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I've configued PS to use spaces for tabs. When I press Backspace, I wish PS would backspace over a complete tabwidth of spaces, not just one space.
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Back Spacing over Tabs

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It backspaces and deletes whatever character is there.
Settingt it to use spaces instead of tabs does not automatically replace existing tab characters.
Look at the Edit - Convert topics to replace tabs with spaces.
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Back Spacing over Tabs

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I don't think I explained my feature request well:

1. Turn on the option that fills tabs with spaces; set this to 4 spaces per tab

2. On a blank line, press tab a couple of times; you get 8 spaces

3. Press backspace. It moves back one space; I want to move back 4 spaces, since I've configured it to 4 spaces per tab.
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Back Spacing over Tabs

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Sorry, but that is what tab characters are for.
How would PrimalScript know that, say, two days ago you pressed the tab key there
and not the space bar 4 times?

It simply cannot distinguish between simple spaces and spaces that have been inserted because you pressed tab.

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