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[platform-swt-dev] elastic tabstops implemented for SWT
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Hi everyone,
I'm the inventor of something called "elastic tabstops" (http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/ includes a Java Swing applet demo). It has generally been favourably received and was recently adopted by Google in their new Go programming language for formatting code (http://golang.org/pkg/tabwriter/). I would like the functionality you can see in my Java Swing applet demo (tabstops move as user modifies text) to be available to Eclipse users (either as a plugin or built in).
I'm hoping that I can get a discussion started here on what the best way to implement this would be (performance is one of my main concerns), and maybe generate enough interest that some of you might be interested in helping me implement it. There was a missing feature (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=279356) which was blocking me, but that's been resolved now.
Nick
