On 31-Dec-12 20:12:13 +0900, Kip Coul wrote:
> Hello Andy,
>
> Good suggestion.
>
> I'll look into the internals of listchars to implement this.
>
> I'll keep you posted.
>
> Cheers,
> Kip
>
> On 31 déc. 2012, at 11:47, Andy Spencer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 2012-12-31 10:22, Kip Coul wrote:
>>> Currently, the visualization of a tab is represented as a first
>>> character followed by as many repetitions of a second character needed
>>> to fill the width (lcs_tab1 and lcs_tab2 in the code, if I'm not
>>> mistaken).
>>>
>>> I'd like to do the opposite, through an option: the first character
>>> repeated plus the second character at the end. That would enable using
>>> arrows ('--->' for 4-space wide tabs).
>>>
>>> What do you think about this? I could add an option such as 'tabview'
>>> which could take two values.
>>
>> I've wanted this before as well.
>>
>> Maybe instead of adding another option you could modify how listchars
>> works? You could use tab:xyz for the left character, the repeated middle
>> character, and the (optional) right character. Then to get an arrow you
>> could use:
>>
>> :set listchars=tab:-->
>>
>> Any existing configurations that use the two character format `tab:xy'
>> would just be a special case and would be equivalent to tab:xyy.
This has been proposed before, but not been accepted yet.
http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/browse_thread/thread/6eaf6fc82626ec25
Have a look at the patch, check whether it still works, try to improve it (tests
would be especially nice; Bram rightly wants better test coverage now), and
resubmit for consideration here.
-- regards, ingo
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