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== Behavior 1: Multiple lines with leading tabs in pasting text ==
 
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Revision as of 19:49, 26 April 2012

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 2: Multiple lines with no tab in pasting text

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Behavior 3: Single line with leading tabs in pasting text

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Behavior 4

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