Re: Global tabgives and spacestotab config option

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 01-06-2021 om 10:51 schreef Benno Schulenberg:
> Op 31-05-2021 om 18:46 schreef Peter Magnusson:
>> I think its a good idea, can nano have a spacestotab config option?
> 
> In theory a --spacestotab option would be possible, but it would be
> wildly complicated because of Undo -- nano would need to backtrack
> and change not only the typed spaces in the buffer to a tab but also
> the spaces in the undo stack, and not forget to adjust the file size.

Now I realize that this would work only for the normal typing.  For the
pasting from the outside into nano another piece of code would be needed,
as nano does bracketed pasting nowadays.

But instead of asking for a new feature in nano, you could also write
a wrapper script that replaces (after nano exits) every group of eight
leading spaces with a tab.  The script could even peek into ~/.nanorc
to see what tabsize is set to and use that to count the spaces.  When
you've written the script, please post it here.

Benno

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