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patchgitweb: highlight: replace tabs with spaces

Subject: [PATCH] gitweb: highlight: replace tabs with spaces

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Kevin Cernekee· Mar 16, 2011, 22:34 UTC · lore

Consider the following code fragment:

        /*
         * test
         */

vim ":set list" mode shows that the first character on each line is a tab:

^I/*$ ^I * test$ ^I */$

By default, the "highlight" program will retain the tabs in the HTML output:

$ highlight --fragment --syntax c test.c
        <span class="hl com">/*</span>
<span class="hl com">    * test</span>
<span class="hl com">    */</span>

vim list mode:

^I/*$ ^I * test$ ^I */$

In gitweb, this winds up looking something like:

   1         /*
   2     * test
   3     */

I tried both Firefox and Opera and saw the same behavior.

The desired output is:

   1         /*
   2          * test
   3          */

This can be accomplished by specifying "--replace-tabs=8" on the highlight command line.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
---
 gitweb/gitweb.perl |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Show changes to gitweb/gitweb.perl +1 −1

diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index d171ad5..649e10a 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -3485,7 +3485,7 @@ sub run_highlighter {
 	close $fd;
 	open $fd, quote_command(git_cmd(), "cat-file", "blob", $hash)." | ".
 	          quote_command($highlight_bin).
-	          " --fragment --syntax $syntax |"
+	          " --replace-tabs=8 --fragment --syntax $syntax |"
 		or die_error(500, "Couldn't open file or run syntax highlighter");
 	return $fd;
 }

-- 
1.7.4.1

J.H.· Mar 16, 2011, 22:48 UTC · re: Kevin Cernekee · lore

Re: [PATCH] gitweb: highlight: replace tabs with spaces

On 03/16/2011 03:34 PM, Kevin Cernekee wrote:

Show 62 quoted lines

> Consider the following code fragment:
> 
>         /*
>          * test
>          */
> 
> vim ":set list" mode shows that the first character on each line is a
> tab:
> 
> ^I/*$
> ^I * test$
> ^I */$
> 
> By default, the "highlight" program will retain the tabs in the HTML
> output:
> 
> $ highlight --fragment --syntax c test.c
>         <span class="hl com">/*</span>
> <span class="hl com">    * test</span>
> <span class="hl com">    */</span>
> 
> vim list mode:
> 
> ^I<span class="hl com">/*</span>$
> <span class="hl com">^I * test</span>$
> <span class="hl com">^I */</span>$
> 
> In gitweb, this winds up looking something like:
> 
>    1         /*
>    2     * test
>    3     */
> 
> I tried both Firefox and Opera and saw the same behavior.
> 
> The desired output is:
> 
>    1         /*
>    2          * test
>    3          */
> 
> This can be accomplished by specifying "--replace-tabs=8" on the
> highlight command line.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
> ---
>  gitweb/gitweb.perl |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> index d171ad5..649e10a 100755
> --- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> +++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> @@ -3485,7 +3485,7 @@ sub run_highlighter {
>  	close $fd;
>  	open $fd, quote_command(git_cmd(), "cat-file", "blob", $hash)." | ".
>  	          quote_command($highlight_bin).
> -	          " --fragment --syntax $syntax |"
> +	          " --replace-tabs=8 --fragment --syntax $syntax |"
>  		or die_error(500, "Couldn't open file or run syntax highlighter");
>  	return $fd;
>  }

Looks fine to me.

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley

Jakub Narebski· Mar 17, 2011, 10:04 UTC · re: Kevin Cernekee · lore

Re: [PATCH] gitweb: highlight: replace tabs with spaces

Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com> writes:

Show 43 quoted lines

> Consider the following code fragment:
> 
>         /*
>          * test
>          */
> 
> vim ":set list" mode shows that the first character on each line is a
> tab:
> 
> ^I/*$
> ^I * test$
> ^I */$
> 
> By default, the "highlight" program will retain the tabs in the HTML
> output:
> 
> $ highlight --fragment --syntax c test.c
>         <span class="hl com">/*</span>
> <span class="hl com">    * test</span>
> <span class="hl com">    */</span>
> 
> vim list mode:
> 
> ^I<span class="hl com">/*</span>$
> <span class="hl com">^I * test</span>$
> <span class="hl com">^I */</span>$
> 
> In gitweb, this winds up looking something like:
> 
>    1         /*
>    2     * test
>    3     */
> 
> I tried both Firefox and Opera and saw the same behavior.
> 
> The desired output is:
> 
>    1         /*
>    2          * test
>    3          */
> 
> This can be accomplished by specifying "--replace-tabs=8" on the
> highlight command line.

Very well written commit message.

> Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>

I was wondering if ancient highlight (2.4.5) that I use supports --replace-tabs option... but it does.

So for what it is worth:

Acked-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>

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> ---
>  gitweb/gitweb.perl |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> index d171ad5..649e10a 100755
> --- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> +++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> @@ -3485,7 +3485,7 @@ sub run_highlighter {
>  	close $fd;
>  	open $fd, quote_command(git_cmd(), "cat-file", "blob", $hash)." | ".
>  	          quote_command($highlight_bin).
> -	          " --fragment --syntax $syntax |"
> +	          " --replace-tabs=8 --fragment --syntax $syntax |"
>  		or die_error(500, "Couldn't open file or run syntax highlighter");
>  	return $fd;
>  }

I wonder if we should synchronize this value with '8' in untabify(), but I think it is out of scope of this patch.

BTW., weren't there patch that made tab width customizable? What happened to it?

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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