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diff runtime/doc/syntax.txt @ 2681:85c5a72551e2
Updated runtime files.
author | Bram Moolenaar <bram@vim.org> |
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date | Sat, 08 Jan 2011 16:06:37 +0100 |
parents | 916c90b37ea9 |
children | b6471224d2af |
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--- a/runtime/doc/syntax.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/syntax.txt @@ -475,6 +475,26 @@ risk of making some things look a bit di This will use <br> at the end of each line and use " " for repeated spaces. +If you do use the "<pre>" tags, <Tab> characters in the text are included in +the generated output if they will have no effect on the appearance of the +text and it looks like they are in the document intentionally. This allows for +the HTML output to be copied and pasted from a browser without losing the +actual whitespace used in the document. + +Specifically, <Tab> characters will be included if the 'tabstop' option is set +to the default of 8, 'expandtab' is not set, and if neither the foldcolumn nor +the line numbers are included in the HTML output (see options above). When any +of these conditions are not met, any <Tab> characters in the text are expanded +to the appropriate number of spaces in the HTML output. + +When "<pre>" is included, you can force |:TOhtml| to keep the tabs even if the +other conditions are not met with: > + :let g:html_expand_tabs = 0 +Note that this can easily break text alignment and indentation in the HTML. + +Force tabs to be expanded even when they would be kept using: > + :let g:html_expand_tabs = 1 + For diff mode on a single file (with g:html_diff_one_file) a sequence of more than 3 filler lines is displayed as three lines with the middle line mentioning the total number of inserted lines. If you prefer to see all the