Try the expand command on linux or google for "sed tab to space
replacement".
Marius
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Michael Zimmermann <micha...@iastate.edu>wrote:
> If you have a lot of files to do this to, I would suggest learning at
> least a little bit of perl. It might not be as nice an option as a
> python tab manager (depending on your point of view), though.
>
> Perl uses regular expressions. In case you'd like to see how to do
> your tab-space replacement, the following bit of code would convert
> tabs to 4 spaces.
>
> Take care,
>
> Mike Z
>
> #----------------------------------
> use strict;
> use warnings;
> my $file = $ARGV[0];
> open(IN,$file) or die $!;
> open(OUT,">".$file."notab") or die $!;
> while(<IN>){
> $_ =~ s/\t/ /g;
> print OUT $_;
> }
> close(IN);
> close(OUT);
> exit;
> #----------------------------------
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Jason Vertrees
> <jason.vertr...@schrodinger.com> wrote:
> > David,
> >
> > Oh, the joys of open-source. Here's my solution for you:
> > (1) load your file in your favorite editor
> > (2) determine user-desired tab stop setting
> > (3) convert all tabs to spaces in your editor (or search replace tabs
> > with X-spaces)
> > (4) save your file
> >
> > One warning though, I have seen some interpreters crash when they
> > encounter spaces over tabs.
> >
> > -- Jason
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:12 AM, David Hall <li...@cowsandmilk.net>
> wrote:
> >> During my editing of dynoplot.py, I noticed that there were some
> >> whitespace issues. Normally I consider whitespace a bikeshedding
> >> topic, but in python, it is significant, so it matters. When tabs and
> >> spaces are mixed, our own personal settings for how tabs are displayed
> >> in an editor makes a huge difference in whether the script is
> >> understandable.
> >>
> >> I checked out the git repo of pymol scripts (
> >> http://github.com/jlec/Pymol-script-repo/ ) and did some analysis
> >>
> >> First, these files switch between some lines where all indenting is
> >> tabs to lines where all indenting is spaces:
> >> Objects_and_Selections/color_objects.py has 8 tab lines and 34 space
> lines
> >> ThirdParty_Scripts/WFMesh.py has 52 tab lines and 21 space lines
> >> biochemical_scripts/pucker.py has 167 tab lines and 5 space lines
> >> math_geo_cgo/modevectors.py has 160 tab lines and 2 space lines
> >> structural_biology_scripts/DynoPlot.py has 82 tab lines and 27 space
> lines
> >> structural_biology_scripts/Rotamers.py has 86 tab lines and 22 space
> lines
> >> structural_biology_scripts/kabsch.py has 51 tab lines and 4 space lines
> >>
> >> Second, there are files where the indenting inside a line switches
> >> back and forth (numbers are the counts of lines that have both tabs
> >> and spaces in indenting):
> >> Objects_and_Selections/color_objects.py: 19
> >> ThirdParty_Scripts/WFMesh.py: 29
> >> ThirdParty_Scripts/transform_odb.py: 6
> >> math_geo_cgo/modevectors.py: 12
> >> structural_biology_scripts/DynoPlot.py: 83
> >> structural_biology_scripts/Rotamers.py: 86
> >> structural_biology_scripts/kabsch.py: 1
> >>
> >> I've tried using pindent.py (
> >> http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Tools/scripts/pindent.py )
> >> and PythonTidy ( http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PythonTidy/ ) to
> >> generally fix these, but they both run into problems. Is there a
> >> general solution out in the python world to automatically fix this? I
> >> don't care whether it produces tabs or spaces. I just want one or the
> >> other. If someone points me to something, I'm more than willing to
> >> run it on these scripts, push them back to github and copy them back
> >> onto the wiki.
> >>
> >> -David
> >>
> >>
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