chocobo1 / nppautodetectindent

Auto detect indention plugin for Notepad++

Auto Detect Indention Plugin for Notepad++

Detects indention (tab or spaces) and auto adjust Tab key on-the-fly

What It Does

Indention used in file	Tab key
Tabs	1 tab
For example: 3 Spaces	3 spaces
Cannot determine	Depends on Notepad++ settings

Installation

1. If you are running Notepad++ 7.6 or later:
   • You are encouraged to use Plugins Admin for installation.
   • For manual installation instructions, read: Install plugin manually
2. If you are running Notepad++ version prior to 7.6:
   Download and extract the archive from below and move nppAutoDetectIndent.dll into Notepad++ plugin folder.
   • For Notepad++ x86: C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins \
   • For Notepad++ x64: C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins

Download

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Why

Many projects have differnet coding style requirements, some use tabs other prefer spaces.
And there is this holy war of tabs or spaces.

I first discovered this function in Geany editor: detecting-indent-type
I thought it's cool because you don't have to worry about having the correct settings in your editor nor need to care about setting up editorconfig, it just works!

Compiler

Visual Studio 2022 Community

License

See LICENSE file

nppautodetectindent's Issues

New to notepad++ plugin development.

Could not understand what this plugin does.

Could the read me file be more specific, like i type this and that happens.

Need to ignore comment lines

Considering the following code snippet:

class Example {
    
    /**
     * demonstrate
     * Define a function 
     * in a class
     * with a long description
     *
     * @param String input
     * @return void
     */
    public function demonstrate(String $input) {
        return null;
    }
    
}

nppAutoDetectIndent will consider files looking like this to have 5-space indentation because that is the most common indentation depth per unqualified line. It should only be considering actual code lines, by excluding all comments (block or otherwise) and by extension lines that only consist of comments.

It would also be nice if we could override the derived value when said derivation is incorrect.

Amend documentation

Perhaos you could add in the readme that (when installing manually) you have to move the DLL into a subdir called 'nppAutoDetectIndent' for it to be loaded. Thanks for the great plugin!

Work with backspace too

Thanks for this great plugin, but what about remove characters? I'm using 2 spaces instead of tab, but Notepad++ don't understand it while backspace, so I compelled to press the backspace twice instead of once to remove characters. I hoped that yours plugin can do it out of the box( Do you planned to implement this? Thanks in advance.

Shift + Tab not working

Hi!

The plugin is amazing, but I think, the SCI_SETTABINDENTS (line #241) and SCI_SETBACKSPACEUNINDENTS (line #243) should leave as true, otherwise eg. the Shift + tab as unindent does not working.

nppAutoDetectIndent/src/nppAutoDetectIndent.cpp

Line 241 in fc7a03f

{SCI_SETTABINDENTS, false, 0},

nppAutoDetectIndent/src/nppAutoDetectIndent.cpp

Line 243 in fc7a03f

{SCI_SETBACKSPACEUNINDENTS, false, 0}

Crash on Notepad++ 8.3

In case you missed it:

Due to the support 2GB files opening in Notepad++ v8.3 x64 build, the header Sci_Position.h in Notepad++ has been modified for adapting this need.
This change has caused the instability in some plugins.

The solution is quite simple - just replace Sci_Position.h by the new one.
ref:
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/22471/recompile-your-x64-plugins-with-new-header

You will also need to update types throughout your code if you are referring to Scintilla positions and text ranges. Scintilla API calls that return positions should not use int but rather Sci_Position and text ranges should use Sci_PositionCR.

You use a text range for example in your code.

Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your help.

Cheers.