-- mod-version:2 -- lite-xl 2.0 local core = require "core" local config = require "core.config" local command = require "core.command" config.plugins.indent_convert = { update_indent_type = true -- set to false to avoid updating the document indent type } -- TODO: only set document indent type if there are no selections -- TODO: correctly restore selections accounting for the offset caused by the conversion -- To replace N spaces with tabs, we match the last N spaces before the start of -- the actual code and replace them with a tab. -- We repeat this until we can't find any more spaces before the code. -- The problem we encounter with this method is that if we have less than N -- remaining spaces, those will end up at the start of the line. -- Eg: -- int main() { -- __printf("Hello world\n"); -- ___return 0; -- } -- -- Becomes -- int main() { -- #printf("Hello world\n"); -- _#return 0; -- } -- -- Instead of -- int main() { -- #printf("Hello world\n"); -- #_return 0; -- } -- With regex we could do something like -- `regex.gsub("(^(?: {2})*)(?: {2})", "\\1\t")` -- but the implementation of `regex.gsub` is very slow. -- -- The workaround is to find the longest possible repetition of N*X spaces and -- use that information to replace the longest repetition of spaces starting -- from the beginning of the line, then the second longest... local function spaces_replacer(text, indent_size) local spaces = string.rep(" ", indent_size) local total = 0 local n local reps = 0 -- find the longest repetition of indent_size*spaces repeat reps = reps + 1 local s, _ = string.find(text, "%f[^\0\n]"..string.rep(spaces, reps)) until not s reps = reps - 1 while reps > 0 do text, n = string.gsub(text, "(%f[^\0\n])("..string.rep(spaces, reps)..")", "%1"..string.rep("\t", reps)) total = total + n reps = reps - 1 end return text, total end local function tabs_replacer(text, indent_size) local spaces = string.rep(" ", indent_size) local total = 0 local n -- replace the last tab before the text until there aren't anymore repeat text, n = string.gsub(text, "(%f[^\0\n]\t*)(\t)", "%1"..spaces) total = total + n until n == 0 return text, total end local function replacer(doc, fn, indent_size) return function(text) return fn(text, indent_size) end end local function get_indent_size(doc) local indent_size = config.indent_size if type(doc.get_indent_info) == "function" then -- use the new `Doc:get_indent_info` function indent_size = select(2, doc:get_indent_info()) end return indent_size end local function tabs_to_spaces() local doc = core.active_view.doc local indent_size = get_indent_size(doc) local selections = doc.selections doc:replace(replacer(doc, tabs_replacer, indent_size)) doc.selections = selections doc:sanitize_selection() if config.plugins.indent_convert.update_indent_type then doc.indent_info = { type = "soft", size = indent_size, confirmed = true } end end local function spaces_to_tabs() local doc = core.active_view.doc local indent_size = get_indent_size(doc) local selections = doc.selections doc:replace(replacer(doc, spaces_replacer, indent_size)) doc.selections = selections doc:sanitize_selection() if config.plugins.indent_convert.update_indent_type then doc.indent_info = { type = "hard", size = indent_size, confirmed = true } end end command.add("core.docview", { ["indent-convert:tabs-to-spaces"] = tabs_to_spaces, ["indent-convert:spaces-to-tabs"] = spaces_to_tabs } )