[TxMt] Reformat paragraph inserting spaces

[Allan Odgaard]

On 21/3/2006, at 0:10, Matthew Gilbert wrote:

> [...] When I reformat a paragraph that is indented by a single tab  
> the indented text is indented with spaces.

I assume you mean with _more_ than one tab. As indent of one tab does  
not lead to indenting of the following lines (unless you use soft tabs).

> [...] is this something I've screwed up in my settings or is this  
> expected behavior?

It is the proper behavior. But I must admit that I am not entirely  
sure why I did decide on indenting the following lines with spaces,  
when the first one uses tabs.

Likely it is a combination of using generic/parameterized functions  
and how the indent also has to deal with leading bullets which cause  
extra indent on the following lines. So  it would complicate things  
to try and re-use first lines indent.

Would the reStructuredText parser work if you used soft tabs? So the  
first lines indent was done with spaces, and the following lines  
would thus match. Alternatively one could maybe add an “unexpand”  
command before piping the text to the reStructuredText parser (to  
collapse spaces into tabs).