space/tab conversion utility?
Grant Edwards
grante at visi.com
Wed Jul 28 22:10:02 EDT 2004
On 2004-07-29, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
> [Grant Edwards, wants to convert spaces to tabs]
>> ...
>> 2) Simply converting all leading spaces to the right number of
>> tabs (unexpand knows how to do that) isn't correct. Only
>> the spaces that are block-indent spaces should be converted.
> ...
>
> reindent.py is in your Python distribution, and is the state
> of the art for "intelligent" conversion of tab-infected files
> to space-celebrating ones. I understand that's not the
> direction you want, but it is the *code* you want to start
> from. [...]
That does indeed sound like the right starting point. The
other option I can think of would be to hack up Jed's
Python-mode so that it attempts to automatically detect whether
tabs or spaces should be used.
Or I could go work on my car.
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