[9fans] Acme tabs to spaces

[9fans] Acme tabs to spaces

[Paul Lalonde]

So my new employer has a coding convention that tabs don't appear in  
source, and that indent levels are 4 spaces.  Ick.  But in the  
interest of global harmony, I'm willing to adapt.  I know I can  
trivially convert the tabs to spaces at any given time, and set  
$tabstops to 4 to get the right width, but I have to do the  
conversion with each file I save.  Ick.
Is there some automatic tab conversion code somewhere in Acme?  Where  
would be the sane place to put such a thing?   (yes, I already know  
there is no sane place for such a thing...)

Paul

Re: [9fans] Acme tabs to spaces

[andrey mirtchovski]

tab/untab scripts? presumably you'd like to have something that
reverses spaces to tabs when you open a file for editing.

Re: [9fans] Acme tabs to spaces

[Russ Cox]

> So my new employer has a coding convention that tabs don't appear in
> source, and that indent levels are 4 spaces.  Ick.  But in the
> interest of global harmony, I'm willing to adapt.  I know I can
> trivially convert the tabs to spaces at any given time, and set
> $tabstops to 4 to get the right width, but I have to do the
> conversion with each file I save.  Ick.
> Is there some automatic tab conversion code somewhere in Acme?  Where
> would be the sane place to put such a thing?   (yes, I already know
> there is no sane place for such a thing...)

acme -a goes a long way to making typing four spaces an okay
thing to do by hand.

everyone has their own programs to convert.
mine is in /n/sources/contrib/rsc/cmd/tab.c

tab -n4 converts from spaces to tabs
tab -u -n4 converts from tabs to spaces

you could go a step further and create scripts T and U
for execution in acme windows that use $winid to
pick up the window contents, process it, and put it back.

russ

Re: [9fans] Acme tabs to spaces

[Rob Pike]

There's no code, but using -a helps a lot.  We have a two-space
indent rule here and I hate it but I've adapted.

-rob

On 12/6/05, Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net> wrote:
> So my new employer has a coding convention that tabs don't appear in
> source, and that indent levels are 4 spaces.  Ick.  But in the
> interest of global harmony, I'm willing to adapt.  I know I can
> trivially convert the tabs to spaces at any given time, and set
> $tabstops to 4 to get the right width, but I have to do the
> conversion with each file I save.  Ick.
> Is there some automatic tab conversion code somewhere in Acme?  Where
> would be the sane place to put such a thing?   (yes, I already know
> there is no sane place for such a thing...)
>
> Paul
>
>

Re: [9fans] Acme tabs to spaces

[David Leimbach]

On 12/6/05, Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
> There's no code, but using -a helps a lot.  We have a two-space
> indent rule here and I hate it but I've adapted.
>
> -rob

Writing lots of C++ are we? :-)

Just a guess.

Re: [9fans] Acme tabs to spaces

[plan9]

On 12/6/05, Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net> wrote:
> Is there some automatic tab conversion code somewhere in Acme?  Where
> would be the sane place to put such a thing?   (yes, I already know
> there is no sane place for such a thing...)

Okay, I'll ask the obvious-- why not an en- and de-tabbing file server?

Re: [9fans] Acme tabs to spaces

[Skip Tavakkolian]

>> Is there some automatic tab conversion code somewhere in Acme?  Where
>> would be the sane place to put such a thing?   (yes, I already know
>> there is no sane place for such a thing...)
> 
> Okay, I'll ask the obvious-- why not an en- and de-tabbing file server?

Kwel!!!  it should read emacs style headers and figure out what the
tabbing should be on reads and on writes it should reduce multiple
consecutive spaces to one,  to save space!  perhaps it could have
auto-capitalization for '\.([0-9]|man)$' files!

i'm joking of course.