Tabulator Issue

Dear Fckeditor 2.6.x users,

I can't find out how to configure the fckeditor to solve the following problem:

When you enter a simple text, say

a<TAB>b<TAB>c

(where <TAB> means the tabulator key) you will have 4 spaces between a/b and b/c, respectively,
if your configuration is something like this:

var sBasePath = document.location.href.substring(0,document.location.href.lastIndexOf('_samples')) ;
var oFCKeditor = new FCKeditor( 'FCKeditor1' ) ;
oFCKeditor.BasePath   = sBasePath ;
oFCKeditor.Config['ProcessHTMLEntities']   = false;
oFCKeditor.Config['ProcessNumericEntities'] = true;
oFCKeditor.Config['FormatIndentator'] = '\t';
oFCKeditor.Config['TabSpaces']= 4;
oFCKeditor.ReplaceTextarea() ;

So if you then enter a text like

ax<TAB>b<TAB>c

you will see that the editor puts also 4 Blanks between ax and b.
So, it seems to me that the fckeditor does not count the blanks, no
text processing is done; but why?
Are there any configuration options to make the tab key "smarter"?

Any ideas about how to solve this problem? Please advice!

Best regards
toller43

Wed, 08/25/2010 - 16:54

toller43

Joined: 25/03/2010

Posts: 27

Re: Tabulator Issue

So, it's me again...

I found out that there was a similar request here: http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/2740,
but it seems that the developer team has abandoned it.
I really don't want to change the source code!

Any ideas?

Best regards
toller43

Thu, 08/26/2010 - 12:19

toller43

Joined: 25/03/2010

Posts: 27

Re: Tabulator Issue

I gave it a last try this morning and I must say that even a change of

oFCKeditor.Config['FormatIndentator'] = '\t';

oFCKeditor.Config['FormatIndentator'] = '#8594';

did not help.
My idea was to change the TAB into a → by simply altering the configuration file.

The problem here is that even variations of '#8594' like '→' don't change the internally used TAB
character to the expected '→'.

The internally used FCKConfig.FormatIndentator is not used in the fckeditorcode_xxx.js files.

So, what can I do? Please help!

Best regards
toller43