Re: [9fans] Acme tabs to spaces

[Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>]

> 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