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sublimetext3sublime-text-plugin
Rasmus
Rasmus

Reputation: 4180

Get position of the correct indentation level for a Sublime Text 3 plugin

I'm trying to create a Sublime Text 3 plugin which should insert text at the selected line(s) at the correct indentation level.

Anyone knows how to achieve this?

This is what I have thus far:

class HelloWorldCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
    def run(self, edit):
        for pos in self.view.sel():
            line = self.view.line(pos)
            # Get Correct indentation level and pass in instead of line.begin()
            self.view.insert(edit, line.begin(), "Hello world;\n")

Upvotes: 0

Views: 102

Answers (1)

r-stein
r-stein

Reputation: 4847

I usually just do it like this and get the indent with python:

class HelloWorldCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
    def run(self, edit):
        for sel in self.view.sel():
            line = self.view.line(sel)
            line_str = self.view.substr(line)
            indent = len(line_str) - len(line_str.lstrip())
            bol = line.begin() + indent
            self.view.insert(edit, bol, "Hello world;\n")

If you want to keep the indentation you can change the last line to:

self.view.insert(edit, bol, "Hello world;\n" + line_str[:indent])

Upvotes: 1

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