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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 22:11:16 +0100
From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
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Subject: Re: PATCH: expand tabs
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On Fri, 05 Jun 2015 16:15:23 +0200
Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> This will cause me to add a bunch of aliases to have -x2 be the default.
> Would it perhaps make sense to allow a default to be specified in a
> special variable. This could also affect the values for the functions
> association. It might also be more flexible in the long term if we want
> to allow more aspects of the output format to be customisable: different
> indentation for continuation lines, ksh style function definitions or
> whatever. Having the user's preference in one place might also be used
> in future for other contexts such as perhaps doing smart indentation
> from zle.

Possibly, though it'll take some careful thinking to ensure this is easy
to use an extensible.  A special has would be the obvious choice.

pws