[IPython-dev] easiest way to insert a literal tab character in a code cell?
Paul Ivanov
pi at berkeley.edu
Thu Apr 3 22:46:03 EDT 2014
Greg Wilson, on 2014-04-03 18:37, wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd like to put literal tab characters in cells, but of course tab means
> "indent" to the editor. What's the easiest way to do this?
> Thanks,
> Greg
> p.s. because I'm going to write Makefiles in the notebook...
Here you go, Greg:
http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/pirsquared.org/blog/notebooks/indenting-tabs.ipynb
The TL;DR version is - you can toggle tab-literal insertion via:
%%javascript
IPython.tab_as_tab_everywhere = function(use_tabs) {
if (use_tabs === undefined) {
use_tabs = true;
}
// apply setting to all current CodeMirror instances
IPython.notebook.get_cells().map(
function(c) { return c.code_mirror.options.indentWithTabs=use_tabs; }
);
// make sure new CodeMirror instances created in the future also use this setting
CodeMirror.defaults.indentWithTabs=use_tabs;
};
And then just call
%%javascript
IPython.tab_as_tab_everywhere();
I believe you already have code to add buttons to the toolbar
that Matthias and Min supplied in the past, so hooking those
things up would be a breeze.
best,
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Paul Ivanov
http://pirsquared.org
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