Since literal tabs look exactly like spaces, seems to me it's a bad
idea to try to include them in a template.
It's far to easy for another maintainer to accidentally remove it.
If it really is vital to use a tab instead of spaces, then ISTM that
it is better to make it obvious.
On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 14:58, Christopher Schultz
<ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
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> All,
>
> I know this has been asked before but I've never really found a
> satisfactory answer: what's the best way to put a literal tab into a
> VTL template?
>
> I don't want to use:
>
> context.put("tab", "\t");
>
> And then use $tab in my template, because I'd have to edit however
> many pieces of code call templates in order to do that.
>
> I don't want to write a new "tool" and put it into the context because
> that's stupid.
>
> I could modify the EscapeTool (which I already use for inconvenient
> characters such as "hash", "backslash", "dollar", and "newline".
>
> But there does not seem to be a good way to get a literal tab into a
> template, directly. I'm, of course, being sabotaged by my editor
> (Eclipse) which will refuse to put a tab into a file even if I
> generate a tab elsewhere and copy/paste into the template. That surely
> has something to do with my own personal editor-preferences. But that
> means that any other member of my team who edits the file might damage
> it it I go ahead and edit the template with vi just to get it done.
>
> There doesn't appear to be any way to put odd literals of other types
> into templates, either. Let's say I'm using vi and want to put
> Japanese text into my template? Am I out of luck? Or is there some
> undocumented "escaping" built-into Velocity that I can use to put a
> literal 日本 into my template without being able to type it or
> copy/paste it?
>
> Thanks,
> - -chris
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