Nori Heikkinen wrote:
hey all, this is kind of off-topic, but i figured this is the community most likley to have dealt with this sort of thing in the past, and be opinionated about it. i've been editing a lot of code over the past few months that was originally saved to disk with hard tabs for indenting. i can't work with hard tabs, and so managed to reformat the entire thing to use spaces (basically a "s,^I, ," iirc) before i began my massive overhaul of this file. now it's time to check it into CVS. i don't want every single line to show up as different just because of tab characters, so i need to find a good solution on how to transform my indents back into tab characters. clearly the reverse -- "s, ,^I," -- won't just work, as there are places where two spaces exist that i wouldn't want a tab. is there some way to open the file in emacs (in which i assumer it was originally written; i use vim) and run it through a re-indentder with hard tabs on? or could i do this in vim? suggestions & opinions welcome. thanks a lot, </nori>
You could probably write a quick script that will eliminate all leading spaces on every line. Once that is done, just run it through indent. man indent shows that there are tons options that will let you tune the look of your source file. HTH, -Roberto
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