From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Cc: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Tabs in commit messages - de-tabify option in strbuf_stripspace()?
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 14:29:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqwpoxcm5v.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56E96D61.6060007@xiplink.com> (Marc Branchaud's message of "Wed, 16 Mar 2016 10:27:45 -0400")
Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com> writes:
> On 16-03-15 09:02 PM, Stefan Beller wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Instead of converting to whitespaces in Git, we could make use of the
>>> set_tabs capability for ttys and setup the terminal for having tabs align
>>> to 12,+8,+8,+8...
>>
>> Or rather read in the existing tabs configuration and shift it by a constant.
>
> Could this also help with diff output, where the leading + or - mars the
> indentation in a similar way?
Hardly: the same pager would be used to display the commit message (with
a 4-space prefix) and the diff (with a 1-char +/- prefix). So the
offsets in these two places would need to be different, and I don't
think we can change that on the fly.
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-20 13:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-16 0:16 Tabs in commit messages - de-tabify option in strbuf_stripspace()? Linus Torvalds
2016-03-16 0:23 ` Stefan Beller
2016-03-16 0:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-03-16 0:34 ` Randall S. Becker
2016-03-16 0:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-16 0:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-03-16 1:00 ` Stefan Beller
2016-03-16 1:02 ` Stefan Beller
2016-03-16 14:27 ` Marc Branchaud
2016-03-16 14:50 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-03-16 16:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-03-16 16:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-20 13:29 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2016-03-16 4:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-03-16 4:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-16 4:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-03-16 5:17 ` Jeff King
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