[Eric] Indentation and shell/terminal font size

[Henrik Pauli]

On Saturday 27 June 2009 18:32:05 Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> On Samstag, 27. Juni 2009, Henrik Pauli wrote:
> > On Saturday 27 June 2009 17:11:11 you wrote:
> > > On Samstag, 27. Juni 2009, Henrik Pauli wrote:
> > > > Now that this thing works in my distro, here's what I found odd:
> > > >
> > > > I set indentation to tabsize=4 indentsize=4 usetabs.  Yet, tabs are 2
> > > > characters wide.  I do use a monospaced font so it shouldn't be a
> > > > confusion with variable width...  I remember this issue from back in
> > > > the days when I wrote ljKlient.
> > >
> > > The shell and the terminal are using the QScintilla highlighter setup
> > > like the editor. Did you configure these.
> >
> > Sorry, the tabsize issue was in the editor, I forgot to emphasise that. 
> > I don't care about tab size in the shell or the terminal.
>
> Did you configure the highlighters? (Editor->Highlighters->Styles,
> Python,...)

They're left on default but they only affect colours and font type/size, not 
tab properties.  'Use monospaced font by default' overrides all fonts into 
monospace (apparently), and so those shouldn't matter, I think

>
> > > > Shell and terminal fonts look huge, apparently 10pt or so, regardless
> > > > of me setting it to 8pt (laptop screen estate is very scarce,
> > > > afterall
> > > >
> > > > :))
> > >
> > > What and where did you set to 8pt (might be the same issue as above)
> >
> > Settings/Editor/Style, Monospaced font, Use monospaced font as default
>
> That has an effect in the editor only. Shall this be extended to the shell
> and terminal?

I guess it would be a good idea to make it possible to set fonts for those, in 
one way or another :)

>
> > > > Also, I have some ANSI colour escape sequences in my PS1, which show
> > > > up in the terminal as ESC[32;01m etc. instead of colours, or getting
> > > > stripped. Not sure if this is a known issue.
> > >
> > > The eric4 terminal is not a full terminal emulation. That means, ANSI
> > > escape sequences are not supported. However, patches are welcome.
> >
> > Stripping them might be a good idea:
> > s/\e\[[\d;]*[\w]//g;
> >
> > unless I'm mistaken :)  (this is how I'd do it in Perl, not sure what I'd
> > do in Python exactly, it's been a while)
>
> I'll look into that.
>
> Detlev