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Re: [PATCH RFC] expand: add support for incremental tab stops


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] expand: add support for incremental tab stops
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:11:07 -0700
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On 29/03/17 15:12, Keller, Jacob E wrote:
> 
> It looks like there may need to be some work on this for handling zero-width 
> characters (like ASCI color sequences) so that it can work correctly for 
> colored output as well. I'm still looking into it. I'm glad you like it.

Maybe expand could handle these escapes for the general case,
though note line diff coloring is trivial to add later with something like

  diff one two | expand --tabs=1,+8 | idiff ¹

cheers,
Pádraig.

¹ http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/idiff




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