An old Atmel/Microchip studio editor TAB problem is still unsolved

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Posted by GermanFranz: Sun. Dec 27, 2020 - 04:44 PM
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I've been observing for a long time an annoying problem with tabs in Atmel or now Microchip studio.

After 7-character labels (plus :) they are sometimes taken into account and sometimes not.

As a result, the same source text often appears differently on different computers.

 

TAB considered after 7plus: label @ Win10 Computer 1:

 

 

Wrong @  Win10 Computer 2:

 

 

 

Using a Hex-Editor you can see that TAB (0x9) is present in source file:

 

This can happen after all such 7plus: (or 8-character) labels in different positions in the same line. 

Text-Editor/All Languages/Tabs (respectively /Assembler/Tabs) and Environment/Tabs and Windows setup ist equal @ all used computers. 

Is there any setting that still has an influence on it? What could be the reason? This behavior seems to be arbitrary.

 

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Last Edited: Sun. Dec 27, 2020 - 05:14 PM
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Posted by N.Winterbottom: Sun. Dec 27, 2020 - 04:50 PM
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I immediately notice that the text size is different between your two screen-shots. Could that be the reason for the difference you have seen ?

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Posted by GermanFranz: Sun. Dec 27, 2020 - 05:29 PM
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N.Winterbottom wrote:

I immediately notice that the text size is different between your two screen-shots. Could that be the reason for the difference you have seen ?

 

You're right. The font size (was different) has an influence.

But why? Why this special tab after 8-character label not always taken into account?

 

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Posted by ron_sutherland: Sun. Dec 27, 2020 - 07:29 PM
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What setting do you have, these are what I found, probably default since I have not changed it.

 

 

Notice the indenting options to cause TAB to work like a verity of editors; that is why I don't use TABs (well, except in Makefiles).

 

update: opps this is what I have

 

my projects: https://github.com/epccs

Last Edited: Sun. Dec 27, 2020 - 07:34 PM
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Posted by GermanFranz: Sun. Dec 27, 2020 - 09:21 PM
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ron_sutherland wrote:
opps this is what I have

 

The same as mine except all my source text uses tab/indent-size=8.

Ignoring tab characters shouldn't happen, even depending on the font size...

Last Edited: Sun. Dec 27, 2020 - 09:28 PM
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