Description

This article describes a new pasting behavior which is smarter than the regular paste-as-it-is behavior in terms of indentation. However the implementation will remain simple without using heavy Eiffel parser to reformat the text being pasted.

Behaviors

Number of tabulations before the cursor (NC) Number of leading tabulations of the text being pasted (NP)

Behavior 1: Multiple lines with leading tabs in pasting text

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Behavior 1.1

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• Removed tabs before the cursor.
• The text pasted is indented by one tabulation (NC - NP)

Behavior 1.2

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• Removed tabs before the cursor.
• The text pasted is modified as (NC - NP) = 0

Behavior 1.3

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• Nothing has been done to the pasted text, becaues NC = 0

Behavior 2: Multiple lines with no tab in pasting text

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Behavior 2.1

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Behavior 2.2

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Behavior 3: Single line with leading tabs in pasting text

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Behavior 3.1

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Behavior 3.2

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Behavior 3.3

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Behavior 4

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Behavior 4.1

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