showdown/src/subParsers/detab.js
2015-01-19 14:57:43 +00:00

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/**
* Convert all tabs to spaces
*/
showdown.subParser('detab', function (text) {
'use strict';
// expand first n-1 tabs
text = text.replace(/\t(?=\t)/g, ' '); // g_tab_width
// replace the nth with two sentinels
text = text.replace(/\t/g, '~A~B');
// use the sentinel to anchor our regex so it doesn't explode
text = text.replace(/~B(.+?)~A/g, function (wholeMatch, m1) {
var leadingText = m1,
numSpaces = 4 - leadingText.length % 4; // g_tab_width
// there *must* be a better way to do this:
for (var i = 0; i < numSpaces; i++) {
leadingText += ' ';
}
return leadingText;
});
// clean up sentinels
text = text.replace(/~A/g, ' '); // g_tab_width
text = text.replace(/~B/g, '');
return text;
});