Editor settings for PlantUML

[asbjornu]

I'd like to configure tabLength: 2 for language-plantuml, but don't really understand how to configure it. I've tried to create the file plantUml.cson with the following contents:

tabLength: 2
    puml:
        tabLength: 2
    pu:
        tabLength: 2

But it doesn't seem to work. The tab length used is still 4 when I press tab. Do I need to restart Atom for the changes to be applied? This might be related to #16, because I don't really understand the difference between grammar and file extension. Which of those should the config file be named after and which should be used within the config file? I'm confused. 😕

[nirix]

The README doesn't really make it clear on how to create a config file.

Open the command palette (Cmd+Shift+P on OS X) and type in Editor Settings: Open Grammar Config and when it pops up press enter.

From there, you can set the tab length. As for file extension configuration:

The options not nested under extensionConfig apply to all PlantUML files, but if you want to change the tab length for a PlantUML with the file extension of .pu for example, then the configuration below will do that:

tabLength: 2
extensionConfig:
  pu:
    tabLength: 4

[asbjornu]

@nirix Thanks. Doing that, opened a file called plantuml.cson (notice the lowercase u) that looks like this:

tabLength: 2
    puml:
        tabLength: 2
    pu:
        tabLength: 2

But when pressing tab in a .puml file, I still get a 4 space length tab character.

[nirix]

Atom is most likely set to use tabs, try this;

tabLength: 2
softTabs: true

[asbjornu]

@nirix That didn't help. Do I need to restart Atom for the changes to be applied?

[asbjornu]

@nirix I fixed it by reducing the config to:

tabLength: 2

Seems like the puml: and/or pu: sections broke it. Any idea why?

[nirix]

The puml: and pu: sections must not have been nested under extensionConfig: like so:

tabLength: 2
extensionConfig:
  puml:
    tabLength: 2
  pu:
    tabLength: 2

[asbjornu]

@nirix Yes, that's correct! :)