Is it possible to create tables without indentation/tabs?

Gwen · February 1, 2022, 11:50pm

Currently the only means I have of using Inform 7 is through Borogove on a Chromebook. However Borogove doesn’t recognize any of my tabs when it compiles. Is there a way to get around the tabs requirement of tables such as how if statements can use begin and end?

cogwheel · February 2, 2022, 7:18pm

This is a bug in Borogove. Its text editor for Inform is using spaces instead of tabs. You could probably use a different text editor to write the table and paste it in.

I would post a bug on their Github page but Github is down

cogwheel · February 2, 2022, 7:29pm

I just tried the text app from the chrome store. In settings you can disable tabs to spaces. Copy paste into borogove worked fine (i’m on windows, but it should work on chromebook)

Gwen · February 3, 2022, 12:45am

Thanks, I’ll give this a try as soon as I can!

Edit: Tested out the app you linked and it works for copy pasting tables on Chromebook perfectly.

cogwheel · February 12, 2022, 6:34pm

Looks like you should be able to type them directly now

github.com/borogove-if/borogove-ide

Use tabs instead of spaces for Inform7

opened 08:36PM - 02 Feb 22 UTC

closed 04:04PM - 12 Feb 22 UTC

cogwheel

The Inform7 language, rather exceptionally, uses tab characters for their origin…al intended purpose: to align tabular data. The official Inform7 IDE even uses [elastic tabstops](https://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/). This code: ``` Table of people foo bar baz "short" "this is some long text" 1 "text in foo2" "more text 2" 2 ``` which looks like this in the Inform7 IDE: ``` Table of people foo bar baz "short" "this is some long text" 1 "text in foo2" "more text 2" 2 ``` is roughly equivalent to the python: ```python people = [ {"foo": "text in foo", "bar": 1, "baz": "more text"}, {"foo": "text in foo2", "bar": 2, "baz": "more text2"}, ] ``` But if you type this in the borogove IDE, it will not compile because it's inserting spaces instead of tabs. The only way I've been able to get it to work is to copy tab characters from another editor. See https://intfiction.org/t/is-it-possible-to-create-tables-without-indentation-tabs/54419 Suggestions: 1. (low hanging) Add a setting to enable tabs instead of spaces, set to tabs by default for Inform7 2. (ideal) Add elastic tab support. Always use this for inform7.