Mercurial > emacs
changeset 18344:dca9b4a8155e
(untabify): Handle consecutive tabs all at once.
(tabify-regexp): New var.
(tabify): Use it.
| author | Karl Heuer <kwzh@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Sat, 21 Jun 1997 00:35:11 +0000 |
| parents | b5cee57a4a0f |
| children | 6e93b01c3883 |
| files | lisp/tabify.el |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lisp/tabify.el Fri Jun 20 21:43:44 1997 +0000 +++ b/lisp/tabify.el Sat Jun 21 00:35:11 1997 +0000 @@ -40,13 +40,20 @@ (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)) - (column (current-column)) - (indent-tabs-mode nil)) - (skip-chars-backward "\t" start) + (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. @@ -64,7 +71,7 @@ (beginning-of-line) (narrow-to-region (point) end) (goto-char start) - (while (re-search-forward "[ \t][ \t][ \t]*" nil t) + (while (re-search-forward tabify-regexp nil t) (let ((column (current-column)) (indent-tabs-mode t)) (delete-region (match-beginning 0) (point))