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(untabify): Handle consecutive tabs all at once.

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(tabify-regexp): New var.
(tabify): Use it.
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Karl Heuer 1997-06-21 00:35:11 +00:00
parent f4ce0bd71e
commit bb8143d9b8
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lisp/tabify.el
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@ -40,13 +40,20 @@ The variable `tab-width' controls the spacing of tab stops."
(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 @@ The variable `tab-width' controls the spacing of tab stops."
(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))