Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On tor, 2010-04-15 at 20:56 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > > Apparently, pgindent replaces multiple spaces in comments by a tab > > > (possibly subject to additional logic). An example among thousands: > > > > > > http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=src/backend/access/gin/ginentrypage.c;h=c23415c0075b5ec52f08e8ef698f7b7ec2f97b19;hp=5cbbc7455519eba6c37be465784a02b350065716;hb=aa1e9bb51c102b239340992f2fcce138edb39d8a;hpb=03ee49a016e69e7594978352df6da4e0bbd7d04a > > > > > > (or just rgrep -F '.<TAB>' the tree to see more). > > > > > > This doesn't make any sense to me. Could this please be fixed, and if > > > possible reverted sometime? > > > > Oh, that is an interesting example. What the code does is if there are > > several spaces and the next word is on a tab stop, the spaces are > > convered to tabs, except if we are in a string. This conversion is done > > by 'entab' which we distribute in src/tools. I am unclear how to fix > > this _except_ to remove all tabs if the line starts with '*', but that > > isn't foolproof, e.g.: > > > > *var = 12; > > Yeah, that explains it. I don't have a good solution, unless entab > wants to keep track when it's inside a comment.
I could add that code, but right now it isn't there. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
