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List:       kwrite-devel
Subject:    Re: Automatic indentation-detection in Kate and KDevelop
From:       Erlend Hamberg <ehamberg () gmail ! com>
Date:       2011-06-23 19:33:58
Message-ID: BANLkTikAdWcdXFVcSFFdK34-gZKbsd4NmQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 23 June 2011 19:46, Tirtha Chatterjee <tirtha.p.chatterjee@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is exactly what I have in mind. Look at a max N lines (N is a
> predefined const),
> and prepare statistics, and based on that return the found values, along with a
> percentage of accuracy. If accuracy is below a certain mark, we
> fallback to default settings.
> How does this sound?

Sounds good to me. You could experiment a bit to see what works.

I know of the following scripts for Vim that does auto-detection of
indent settings, perhaps you could look at them to come up with some
initial ideas:

https://github.com/ciaranm/detectindent
https://github.com/vim-scripts/yaifa.vim

-- 
Erlend Hamberg
ehamberg@gmail.com
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