From: D. M. M. <ros...@gm...> - 2013-10-17 13:38:39
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On 10/16/2013 08:06 PM, Ted Felix wrote: > It would be nice to have an untabify tool to do this. For some of > rg's code, I've used sed: I started with sed, but it's hopeless. Somebody apparently used variable-width tabs all over the place. No matter what you pick, change them to that, and the results are messed up, because there are at least seven different tab expansions required to make the code line up the way it is obviously supposed to line up. They must have edited the damn thing with Libre Office or something. No code or plain text editor does that. This is bad. I did a basic sed and then a diff, and the patch is 25,000 lines that change by replacing all the tabs. That's just what Niek needs is for us to change 25,000 lines in trunk and then expect svn merge to handle it. He'll be resolving conflicts until the year of the Linux desktop. I'm going to quit while I'm behind at this point, and give up. -- D. Michael McIntyre |