Re: html_expand_tabs Help Text

On Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 8:10:05 AM UTC-6, Yongwei Wu wrote:
> Hi Bram,
>
> I saw this while checking TOhtml details:
>
> *g:html_expand_tabs*
> Default: 1 if 'tabstop' is 8, 'expandtab' is 0, and no fold column or line
> numbers occur in the generated HTML;
> 0 otherwise.
> When 0, <Tab> characters in the buffer text are replaced with an appropriate
> number of space characters, or &nbsp; references if |g:html_no_pre| is 1.
> When 1, if |g:html_no_pre| is 0 or unset, <Tab> characters in the buffer text
> are included as-is in the generated HTML. This is useful for when you want to
> allow copy and paste from a browser without losing the actual whitespace in
> the source document. Note that this can easily break text alignment and
> indentation in the HTML, unless set by default.
>
> Force |2html.vim| to keep <Tab> characters: >
> :let g:html_expand_tabs = 0
> <
> Force tabs to be expanded: >
> :let g:html_expand_tabs = 1
> <
>
> It seems to me the help text is wrong and conflicts with the examples.
> Is it a bug?
>
>

Oops, that's typo in help text. This option is supposed to mimic Vim's expandtab option. The help text reverses the meaning and also the default value logic.

I think I may have originally had the option called "keeptab" or something like that and did not fully update the help text.

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