Re: increasing/reducing the number of leading white spaces dynamically

On 11/03/11 11:40, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, Tim Chase wrote:
>> [...] like (untested)
>>
>> autocmd BufWritePre *.py %s/^\( \{8}\)\+/\=substitute(submatch(0), repeat(' ', 8), repeat(' ', 4), 'g')
>>
>> autocmd BufWritePost *.py %s/^\( \{4}\)\+/\=substitute(submatch(0), repeat(' ', 4), repeat(' ', 8), 'g')
>>
>> [...] The 2nd one might be simply replaced with
>>
>> autocmd BufWritePre *.py u
>
> s/Pre/Post/

Doh, that's what I get for copy-n-pasting the Pre to the Post the
first time and then pasting again for the "u" version.

> But, it seems to me it'd be better to keep it explicit, so that it
> doesn't interact poorly with other BufWrite* autocmds that other plugins
> might use.
>
> Also, you should add:
>
> /e
>
> to the end of each autocmd, for the unusual case that no lines in the
> .py file are indented. (If you just started a new file, for example.)
> Other than that, it seems to work for me on some simple files.

Ah, the products of actually testing. So yes, Jose, incorporate
Ben's suggestions.

-tim

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