On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:48:34AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i've been editing a lot of code over the past few months that was > originally saved to disk with hard tabs for indenting. i can't work > with hard tabs, and so managed to reformat the entire thing to use > spaces (basically a "s,^I, ," iirc) before i began my massive > overhaul of this file. > > now it's time to check it into CVS. i don't want every single line to > show up as different just because of tab characters, so i need to find > a good solution on how to transform my indents back into tab > characters. clearly the reverse -- "s, ,^I," -- won't just work, as > there are places where two spaces exist that i wouldn't want a tab. > > is there some way to open the file in emacs (in which i assumer it was > originally written; i use vim) and run it through a re-indentder with > hard tabs on? or could i do this in vim?
Perhaps you could set up vim's C indenting to produce the results you want naturally, then run the whole thing through '='? You could also use the 'indent' program, which has an insane range of options so can probably reproduce most reasonable and unreasonable styles. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
