You are exactly correct. If I paste the text into the editor using the terminal emulator (⌘V), it appears to be keyboard input and the translation occurs.
If I yank it (⌃y), the translation does not occur, because it is not keyboard input. I was pasting it. I know yank now works, but I have not yet got my muscle memory working that way, when I copy text from somewhere using the system clipboard. Thanks! -- Marc Wilson posgu...@gmail.com On Mon, Dec 23, 2024, at 4:18 PM, Charlie Gordon wrote: > 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
