2.0.0: indent type missing in CLI?

[lkraav]

Hi. Do I interpret README correctly, it doesn't support detect-intent API object's type field? Any particular reason why not?

[sindresorhus]

Currently, it returns the indent itself. You could infer the type yourself.

What is your use-case?

I could maybe add a --verbose (or a better name?) flag that would output:

$ detect-indent --verbose
Type:   Tab
Amount: 2

[lkraav]

What is your use-case?

I was trying to figure out for a legacy mixed indent codebase, what is the predominant indent type used.

So after monkey-patching detect-indent for const {type}, I ran something like

$ find src/ -type f -printf '%p ' -exec detect-indent {} \; -exec echo \;

Of course, it turned out false space-positives were identified, because of file header block comments having a single space indent.

/**
 * Comment
 *
 * @todo Moar.
 */
function() {
<tab>yah();

<tab>...

}

[lkraav]

Tried again in 2023 to understand whether a file is predominantly Tabs or Spaces, but I guess no luck with moving a verbose mode forward?