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

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

Behavior 1.2

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• Remove tabs before the cursor.
• The text pasted is not modified when (NC - NP) = 0

Behavior 1.3

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

Behavior 2: Multiple lines with no tab in pasting text

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Behavior 2.1

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• Nothing has been done to the pasted text when NP = 0

Behavior 2.2

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• Nothing has been done to the pasted text when NP = 0

Behavior 3: Single line with leading tabs in pasting text

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Behavior 3.1

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

Behavior 3.2

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• Remove tabs before the cursor.
• The text pasted is not modified when (NC - NP) = 0

Behavior 3.3

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• Nothing is done to the text pasted when NC = 0

Behavior 4

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Behavior 4.1

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• Remove tabs before the cursor.
• The text pasted is indented by one tabulation (NC - NP)
• This is a good example to show this pasting behavior's advantage. Paste-as-it-is requires 4 steps to get this result.