> On 26/08/11 19:24, Gerardo Marset wrote:
>> I'm looking for a way of knowing wether or not all the characters up to
>> the cursor position in the current line are spaces.
>> How would I do that?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
> Spaces only, or spaces and tabs, or any whitespace including (or not)
> no-break spaces and including (or not) CJK wide spaces (U+3000 IIRC)?
Real spaces only.
> Including or excluding the cursor position?
Excluding.
>
> For "true" spaces only, and not including the cursor position, what
> about (untested)
>
> if getline('.') =~ '^ \{' . col('.') - 1 . '}'
> " we are on the first nonspace, or before it
> else
> " we aren't
> endif
>
> (it is important to use single quotes in the test-expression).
>
> The other cases are left as an exercise to the reader, but beware of
> the difference between col() and virtcol()
>
> Also, the example above should intentionally follow the "true" path
> whenever we are in column 1, since in that case the zero characters
> before the cursor contain nothing that isn't a space.
Nice, but it seems to have a little mistake. I had to add brackets like
this:
if getline('.') =~ '^ \{' . (col('.') - 1) . '}'
Then, it worked.
Much better than my previous method, which involved a loop and variables
and whatnot. Thanks!
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