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Reputation: 20232

Visual Studio Code - Convert tabs to spaces for all files in folder

I know I can manually replace tabs to spaces like this:

  1. F1,
  2. indentationToSpaces
  3. Enter.

Is there a way to do this for all files in a folder (+ files in subfolders)?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1459

Answers (1)

Daniil Loban
Daniil Loban

Reputation: 4381

Ok. I think, you are looking for an extension. But my answer is a litle trick - using the global replacer with regex:

We change step by step to save the amount of indentation and replace tabs only in the start of line.

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The below snippet shows replace step by step,s presents one space and _ precents one tab:

test = '_____Text__'
for(let i=0; i < 7; i++){
  test = test.replace(/^([ ]*)(_)/, "$1 ")
  console.log( 'step', i, test.replace(/[ ]/g, 's'))
}

You may use two spaces instead one.

But this solution has 1 issue - after replace you must update regexp (for example: add and remove space) for activate this button again

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So at the end steps look like:

  1. fill: regexp, replace, files to include
  2. click replace
  3. update regexp or click twice on one of this buttons: enter image description here
  4. repeat from step 2 some times

Upvotes: 1

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