From: Matthieu Moy Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 13:29:48 GMT Subject: Re: Tabs in commit messages - de-tabify option in strbuf_stripspace()? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <56E96D61.6060007@xiplink.com> Marc Branchaud writes: > On 16-03-15 09:02 PM, Stefan Beller wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Stefan Beller 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. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/