Re: Tabs in commit messages - de-tabify option in strbuf_stripspace()?
Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com> writes:
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> On 16-03-15 09:02 PM, Stefan Beller wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Instead of converting to whitespaces in Git, we could make use of the
>>> set_tabs capability for ttys and setup the terminal for having tabs align
>>> to 12,+8,+8,+8...
>>
>> Or rather read in the existing tabs configuration and shift it by a constant.
>
> Could this also help with diff output, where the leading + or - mars the
> indentation in a similar way?
Hardly: the same pager would be used to display the commit message (with
a 4-space prefix) and the diff (with a 1-char +/- prefix). So the
offsets in these two places would need to be different, and I don't
think we can change that on the fly.
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Matthieu Moy
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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>