Paste with Indentation

Revision as of 20:11, 26 April 2012 by Ted (Talk | contribs) (Behaviors)

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

Note:

  • 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 copied text.PNG

Behavior 1.1

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Behavior 1 1 pasted at.PNG

Result:

Behavior 1 1 result.PNG

Summury:

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

Behavior 1.2

Pasted at:

Behavior 1 2 pasted at.PNG

Result:

Behavior 1 2 result.PNG

Summury:

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

Behavior 1.3

Pasted at:

Behavior 1 3 pasted at.PNG

Result:

Behavior 1 3 result.PNG

Summury:

  • 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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