Hi Marc, The question is how to you paste the text into the buffer?
* if you use yank (C-y) with working support of the system clipboard, TABs in the clipboard should be preserved. * if you use the terminal pasting feature, qemacs receives the TABs as keyboard input and depending on the current buffer mode, they will self-insert or cause qemacs to insert spaces up to the indentation. Which if these do you perform? Your suggestion to make `.patch`files use TAB as a regular self-insert character makes sense. This cannot be achieved with conditionals in the config file, I will look into that. Makefiles obviously need a similar mode. Chqrlie. > On 23 Dec 2024, at 22:50, Marc Wilson <posgu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is there a way to do conditionals in the config file based on filename or > extension? > > Example... I have tab expansion turned on and set to four spaces. I touched > in a shell a new file with a .patch extension, then opened it in qemacs and > pasted a patch into it and saved it. > > But it wouldn't apply. The code base was tabs, and qemacs had replaced the > tabs. Perhaps there's an option to git apply that would correct for that, > but I don't know what it is. > > So it would be useful to be able to condition things like that based on the > filename or extension (or filetype, I could do it the other way and only > force the expansion on python files ^_^ ). > > -- > Marc Wilson > posgu...@gmail.com <mailto:posgu...@gmail.com>
