[TxMt] Re: spaces and tabs and reformatting

[Scott Haneda]

On Aug 30, 2009, at 7:23 PM, Adam Bryzak <adam+textmate at bryzak.net>  
wrote:

> On 31/08/2009, at 12:16 PM, Scott Haneda wrote:
>
>> If I have for example this code:
>> function foo() {
>>    var list = [];
>> }
>>
>> Note there is 4 spaces indention.
>>
>> I work in 5 spaces soft tabs.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> I have tried selecting the code, while I have my tabs set to 5, hard
>> or soft, using reformat selection, in this case, in the JavaScript
>> bundle area, or, convert spaces to tabs.  Neither gets me where I  
>> need
>> to be.
>
> When I change a file that has a different tab stop to what I usually
> work in, I usually reformat it by setting my tab width to match the
> file, convert spaces to tabs, change the tab width to be my preferred
> one then convert tabs to spaces.

Any way to automate that on a selection? I don't suppose I can access  
the current tab stop setting value.

Any fancy regex's that could find and replace this? It's generally  
going to be 1-4 leading spaces, which should not be to hard to fish out.

-- 
Scott
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