Hello,
The following patch would strip leading blank characters (instead of
tabs only) from the lines in the document when <<- redirection is
used (and should be useful when indentation is done with spaces):
--- tree.h.orig Mon Mar 28 23:28:22 2005
+++ tree.h Sun Sep 13 08:23:01 2015
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
#define IOCAT 0x5 /* >> */
#define IODUP 0x6 /* <&/>& */
#define IOEVAL BIT(4) /* expand in << */
-#define IOSKIP BIT(5) /* <<-, skip ^\t* */
+#define IOSKIP BIT(5) /* <<-, skip ^[ \t]* */
#define IOCLOB BIT(6) /* >|, override -o noclobber */
#define IORDUP BIT(7) /* x<&y (as opposed to x>&y) */
#define IONAMEXP BIT(8) /* name has been expanded */
--- lex.c.orig Sun Sep 13 07:50:06 2015
+++ lex.c Sun Sep 13 08:08:29 2015
@@ -843,7 +843,7 @@
int c;
char *volatile eof;
char *eofp;
- int skiptabs;
+ int skipblanks;
XString xs;
char *xp;
int xpos;
@@ -857,13 +857,13 @@
for (;;) {
eofp = eof;
- skiptabs = iop->flag & IOSKIP;
+ skipblanks = iop->flag & IOSKIP;
xpos = Xsavepos(xs, xp);
while ((c = getsc()) != 0) {
- if (skiptabs) {
- if (c == '\t')
+ if (skipblanks) {
+ if (isblank(c))
continue;
- skiptabs = 0;
+ skipblanks = 0;
}
if (c != *eofp)
break;
--- ksh.1.orig Fri Jul 17 08:39:57 2015
+++ ksh.1 Sun Sep 13 08:11:05 2015
@@ -2085,7 +2085,8 @@
.It \*(Lt\*(Lt- Ar marker
Same as
.Ic \*(Lt\*(Lt ,
-except leading tabs are stripped from lines in the here document.
+except leading blank characters (tabs and spaces) are stripped from lines in
+the here document.
.It \*(Lt& Ar fd
Standard input is duplicated from file descriptor
.Ar fd .
--- sh.1.orig Wed Jun 17 07:47:43 2015
+++ sh.1 Sun Sep 13 08:13:20 2015
@@ -1554,7 +1554,7 @@
.It Oo Ar n Oc Ns <<-
Same as
.Ic << ,
-except leading tabs are stripped from lines in
+except leading blank characters (spaces or tabs) are stripped from lines in
.Ar block .
.It Oo Ar n Oc Ns <& Ns Ar file
Make file descriptor
I don't know if isblank(3) is acceptable here (since I do not understand
from the man page if it could return true for characters different from
spaces and tabs when locales other than C are used); if not, a simple
or operator between '\t' and ' ' could be used instead.
All the best
--
Alessandro DE LAURENZIS
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