annotate lisp/tabify.el @ 2816:7c0be881a633

Install David Mackenzie's patches to make ${srcdir} work. * Makefile.in (srcdir, VPATH): Get this value from the top-level Makefile. (xmakefile): Use ${srcdir} to find the files from which we produce xmakefile. Edit the values for srcdir and VPATH into xmakefile. * ymakefile (srcdir, VPATH): New definitions for the Makefile to edit. (ALL_CFLAGS): Remove `-Is' and `-Im'; add `-I${srcdir}', and `-I.'. (emacs): Adjust dumping commands to deal with a separate source directory. (${etc}DOC): Pass `-d ${srcdir}' to make-docfile, to tell it where to find the source files. (prefix-args): Find the source code in ${srcdir}.

;;; tabify.el --- tab conversion commands for Emacs

;; Copyright (C) 1985 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

;; Maintainer: FSF

;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.

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;;; Commentary:

;; Commands to optimize spaces to tabs or expand tabs to spaces in a region
;; (`tabify' and `untabify').  The variable tab-width does the obvious.

;;; Code:

;;;###autoload
(defun untabify (start end)
  "Convert all tabs in region to multiple spaces, preserving columns.
Called non-interactively, the region is specified by arguments
START and END, rather than by the position of point and mark.
The variable `tab-width' controls the spacing of tab stops."
  (interactive "r")
  (save-excursion
    (save-restriction
      (narrow-to-region (point-min) end)
      (goto-char start)
      (while (search-forward "\t" nil t)	; faster than re-search
	(let ((start (point))
	      (column (current-column))
	      (indent-tabs-mode nil))
	  (skip-chars-backward "\t")
	  (delete-region start (point))
	  (indent-to column))))))

;;;###autoload
(defun tabify (start end)
  "Convert multiple spaces in region to tabs when possible.
A group of spaces is partially replaced by tabs
when this can be done without changing the column they end at.
Called non-interactively, the region is specified by arguments
START and END, rather than by the position of point and mark.
The variable `tab-width' controls the spacing of tab stops."
  (interactive "r")
  (save-excursion
    (save-restriction
      (narrow-to-region start end)
      (goto-char start)
      (while (re-search-forward "[ \t][ \t][ \t]*" nil t)
	(let ((column (current-column))
	      (indent-tabs-mode t))
	  (delete-region (match-beginning 0) (point))
	  (indent-to column))))))

;;; tabify.el ends here