Eclipse tabs/spaces do not work correctly

[haveric]

Eclipse tabs/spaces do not work correctly

[xxmarkxx]

Thanx for the help last night.
Here's your code buddy.
I had to think a little outside the box.
Hope it's what you were looking for.
NOTE: this site is editing the code when I submit the comment.
You will have to add a grave accent before the t on line 2
and another grave accent that is missing before the n on the last line.

clipboard =
clipboard = ftx ClipWait StringReplace, clipboard, clipboard, f, , StringReplace, clipboard, clipboard, x, , MsgBox The TAB character has been copied to the clipboard:n`n%clipboard%

[haveric]

Thank you, this works wonderfully. You can even simplify it by using f twice and adding the All, A, or 1 parameter to StringReplace.

[xxmarkxx]

You're welcome. But I'll do you one better.
clipboard := "t" ClipWait MsgBox The TAB character has been copied to the clipboard:n`n%clipboard%

Again, put an accent on that t. Man, wish it wouldn't edit code like this....

[haveric]

Not bad. I'm still losing some formatting with lines that just have tabs and braces or perhaps that aren't surrounded by something (first tab in a line), but this is certainly helping. Also anything to speed it up is always appreciated. I'm thinking of trying to store everything in a variable and putting it back into the clipboard in order to paste it, instead of doing Send's for each character, that might also help.

Again, thanks for the help.

[xxmarkxx]

Not a prob.
Not sure why you have to use the function method for a single tab, but whatever.
Engunneer and I are having a "discussion" on this and other what I'm calling workarounds
back on the board if you're interested. Feel free to put in your two cents. ;P
http://www.autohotkey.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=88095

[haveric]

Thanks, I found the "Autotrim, off" from part of the tab thread that seems to fix part of my issues. I'm reading the rest of it now.