What do you mean? Convert " \t" to something? If so please see the
new fully customized version of my mega-script :-)
The usage pattern in your case will be:
ant -f tabs2spaces_v2.xml -Dsrc.dir=<dir with sources> -Dpattern=" \t"
Regards,
2006/10/2, Alexey Petrenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Does it work with the sequences like {"space", "space", "tab"} etc?
2006/10/2, Alexei Zakharov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi all,
>
> I noticed that the tab character (0x09) is still widely used in our
> classlib source code. At least in tests. From my recent experience
> this leads to broken indentation. I mean the situation when patch with
> spaces is applied to the source there tab character is used for
> indentation. Someone knows that according to Sun code conventions the
> tab should be exactly 8 spaces. The other person knows that exactly
> four spaces should be used as the unit of indentation [1]. As a result
> we have all methods indented with the single tab character and the
> patched methods indented with 4 spaces. And if your IDE is configured
> to display tabs as 8 spaces you will see broken indentation. Or vice
> versa.
>
> I have created small ANT script - see HARMONY-1660 [2]. This script
> converts all tabs to spaces in all found sources under the given
> directory recursively. I will be grateful if someone runs this script
> (tab -> 4 spaces) at least for beans tests (I currently working with)
> and integrates the results. It is really painful to deal with this
> broken alignment every day. And it is too boring (and IMHO silly) to
> convert it file by file and send patches for each case.
>
> [1] http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConventions.doc3.html#262
> [3] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-1660
>
> Thanks,
--
Alexei Zakharov,
Intel Middleware Product Division
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