Homepage: https://gitlab.com/wavexx/rigid-tabs.el
Author: Yuri D'Elia
Updated:
Fix TAB alignment in diff buffers
`rigid-tabs-mode' fixes the visual alignment of TABs in diff buffers without actually changing the content of the buffer. `rigid-tabs-mode' "rigidifies" all TABs in the current buffer, preserving their initial width but making them non-flexible just like a block of spaces. This allows TABs to be moved around without changing width. This becomes helpful when viewing diffs, which introduce one or more prefix characters that alter the target column of the displayed TABs. The resulting misalignment may make code indentation look suspicious and overall harder to read, even though it's perfectly aligned when the patch is applied. The function `rigid-tabs-rigid-align' turns on `rigid-tabs-mode' and adjusts the visual alignment of TABs to compensate for the requested amount of prefix characters. The result is a diff that looks correctly indented, as if applied on the source. For convenience, to fix alignment in the various diff/magit modes, use `rigid-tabs-diff-align', which detects the amount of prefix for both unified and context diffs automatically: (add-hook 'diff-mode-hook 'rigid-tabs-diff-align) (add-hook 'magit-refresh-buffer-hook 'rigid-tabs-diff-align)