From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Babel] Preserving tabs in code blocks
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:11:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5393.1314331918@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> of "Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:13:21 EDT." <87mxex2cwe.fsf@norang.ca>
Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to include the contents of a file which requires TABS between
> fields in a #+begin_src ... #+end_src block.
>
> When I use C-c ' to edit the block the TABS are all converted back to
> spaces. I want to be able to tangle the file and preserve the TABS
> which are required as input to some tool chain.
>
> Is there some mode I can use to preserve the TABS?
>
> For example:
>
> #+begin_src fundamental :tangle testtabs.txt
> These words
> are separated
> by tabs.
> #+end_src
>
> I need to be able to create the testtabs.txt file with the TAB
> characters intact otherwise it fails as input to the tool chain (which I
> have no control over).
>
> Is there any way to do this?
>
> For now I'm keeping the input in a separate file, but I would much
> prefer to have it in a babel source block in my notes for future
> reference.
>
Try setting org-src-preserve-indentation to t. If you change the default
value of indent-tabs-mode to nil (as I do), then you might have problems
in any case: inserted tabs will be changed to spaces. But if you have it
left at the default t, then I think this works.
Nick
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2011-08-26 1:13 [Babel] Preserving tabs in code blocks Bernt Hansen
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2011-08-26 10:14 ` Bernt Hansen
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