by Philippe Fremy <phil at freehackers dot org>

Copyright (C) 2002-2010 Philippe Fremy

Copyright (C) 2013 Steven Myint

This program is distributed under the BSD license. You should have received a copy of the file LICENSE.txt along with this software.

indent-finder is a vim plugin that detects the indentation of a file and sets vim's indentation settings appropriately to match.

To install this plugin, copy the contents of the plugin directory to your ~/.vim/plugin directory.

Or to install it using pathogen.vim:

$ cd ~/.vim/bundle
$ git clone https://github.com/myint/indent-finder

To use from command line:

$ ./indent_finder example.py
space 4

See web page for more information.

version 1.5:

• Simplify installation process.
• Detect when files have no valid indentation.
• Add Python 3 support.
• Default to user's tabstop when necessary.

version 1.4:

• Improve the heuristic, some file where incorrectly reported as tab when being mixed.
• ('tab', 4) was returned instead of DEFAULT_OUTPUT when no decision could be made. This is now configurable.
• vim_output() now includes a comment about the detected indentation.

version 1.31:

• The --vim-output was not working. Fixed in this version.

version 1.3:

• Remove indent_checker, this was a useless program.
• Improve the indentation algorithm to be able to detecte mixed type indentation.
• Detect mixed type indentation, like the one used in vim source files.

version 1.2:

• Add indent_checker, to check the consistency of the indentation of a source tree.

version 1.1:

• Improve the heuristic by detecting indentation steps.

version 1.0:

• Initial release.