Microsoft/TypeScript

Support for tabs in language service formatter.

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#2,306 opened on Mar 11, 2015

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Description

The formatter described in the link below currently doesn't seem to offer a way to indent by using tabs. https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Using-the-Compiler-API#pretty-printer-using-the-ls-formatter

Could that be added? Thanks!

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Investigate the language service formatter API in TypeScript and identify where indentation options are handled. Look at the pretty printer code to see how to add tab support.
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typescript
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tooling
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3
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Half day
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