Automatically detect indentation of opened files. It looks at each opened file and sets file specific tab settings (hard/soft tabs, tab length) based on the content of the file instead of always using the editor defaults.
You might have atom configured to use 4 spaces for tabs but open a rails project which defaults to 2 spaces. Without this package, you would have to change your tabstop settings globally or risk having inconsistent lead spacing in your files.
To add a keyboard shortcut for the indentation selector menu, use the auto-detect-indentation:show-indentation-selector command. Here's an example:
keymap.cson
'atom-text-editor':
'ctrl-I': 'auto-detect-indentation:show-indentation-selector'You can add auto-detect-indentation.indentationTypes to your config.cson file to change the types of indentation available in the indent selector menu. Here's an example:
config.cson
"auto-detect-indentation":
indentationTypes: [
{
name: "Best Indent"
softTabs: true
tabLength: 16
}
]