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author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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date | Tue, 30 Apr 2002 04:59:24 +0000 |
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;;; tabify.el --- tab conversion commands for Emacs ;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Maintainer: FSF ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) ;; any later version. ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. ;;; 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 (forward-char -1) (let ((tab-beg (point)) (indent-tabs-mode nil) column) (skip-chars-forward "\t") (setq column (current-column)) (delete-region tab-beg (point)) (indent-to column)))))) (defvar tabify-regexp "[ \t][ \t]+" "Regexp matching whitespace that tabify should consider. Usually this will be \"[ \\t][ \\t]+\" to match two or more spaces or tabs. \"^[ \\t]+\" is also useful, for tabifying only initial whitespace.") ;;;###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 ;; Include the beginning of the line in the narrowing ;; since otherwise it will throw off current-column. (goto-char start) (beginning-of-line) (narrow-to-region (point) end) (goto-char start) (while (re-search-forward tabify-regexp nil t) (let ((column (current-column)) (indent-tabs-mode t)) (delete-region (match-beginning 0) (point)) (indent-to column)))))) (provide 'tabify) ;;; tabify.el ends here