support custom indentation (#5318)

closes #50

README.md

@@ -917,9 +917,11 @@ can pass additional arguments that control the code output:
 
 - `galio` (default: `false`) — enable workarounds for ANT Galio bugs
 
-- `indent_level` (default: `4`)
+- `indent_level` (default: `4`) — indent by specified number of spaces or the
+  exact whitespace sequence supplied, e.g. `"\t"`.
 
-- `indent_start` (default: `0`) — prefix all lines by that many spaces
+- `indent_start` (default: `0`) — prefix all lines by whitespace sequence
+  specified in the same format as `indent_level`.
 
 - `inline_script` (default: `true`) — escape HTML comments and the slash in
   occurrences of `</script>` in strings

lib/output.js

@@ -101,9 +101,17 @@ function OutputStream(options) {
         }
     }
 
+    function make_indent(value) {
+        if (typeof value == "number") return new Array(value + 1).join(" ");
+        if (!/^\s*$/.test(value)) throw new Error("unsupported indentation: " + JSON.stringify("" + value));
+        return value;
+    }
+
     var current_col = 0;
     var current_line = 1;
-    var indentation = options.indent_start;
+    var current_indent = make_indent(options.indent_start);
+    var full_indent = make_indent(options.indent_level);
+    var half_indent = full_indent.length + 1 >> 1;
     var last;
     var line_end = 0;
     var line_fixed = true;
@@ -368,14 +376,14 @@ function OutputStream(options) {
 
     var indent = options.beautify ? function(half) {
         if (need_newline_indented) print("\n");
-        print(repeat_string(" ", half ? indentation - (options.indent_level >> 1) : indentation));
+        print(half ? current_indent.slice(0, -half_indent) : current_indent);
     } : noop;
 
     var with_indent = options.beautify ? function(cont) {
-        var save_indentation = indentation;
+        var save_indentation = current_indent;
-        indentation += options.indent_level;
+        current_indent += full_indent;
         cont();
-        indentation = save_indentation;
+        current_indent = save_indentation;
     } : function(cont) { cont() };
 
     var may_add_newline = options.max_line_len || options.preserve_line ? function() {
@@ -559,7 +567,7 @@ function OutputStream(options) {
         reset           : reset,
         indent          : indent,
         should_break    : options.beautify && options.width ? function() {
-            return current_col - indentation >= options.width;
+            return current_col >= options.width;
         } : return_false,
         has_parens      : function() { return last.slice(-1) == "(" },
         newline         : newline,

lib/utils.js

@@ -55,14 +55,6 @@ function find_if(func, array) {
     for (var i = array.length; --i >= 0;) if (func(array[i])) return array[i];
 }
 
-function repeat_string(str, i) {
-    if (i <= 0) return "";
-    if (i == 1) return str;
-    var d = repeat_string(str, i >> 1);
-    d += d;
-    return i & 1 ? d + str : d;
-}
-
 function configure_error_stack(fn) {
     Object.defineProperty(fn.prototype, "stack", {
         get: function() {

test/compress/indentation.js

@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+numeric: {
+    beautify = {
+        beautify: true,
+        indent_start: 1,
+        indent_level: 3,
+    }
+    input: {
+        switch (42) {
+          case null:
+            console.log("FAIL");
+        }
+        console.log("PASS");
+    }
+    expect_exact: [
+        " switch (42) {",
+        "  case null:",
+        '    console.log("FAIL");',
+        " }",
+        "",
+        ' console.log("PASS");',
+    ]
+    expect_stdout: "PASS"
+}
+
+spaces: {
+    beautify = {
+        beautify: true,
+        indent_start: " ",
+        indent_level: "   ",
+    }
+    input: {
+        switch (42) {
+          case null:
+            console.log("FAIL");
+        }
+        console.log("PASS");
+    }
+    expect_exact: [
+        " switch (42) {",
+        "  case null:",
+        '    console.log("FAIL");',
+        " }",
+        "",
+        ' console.log("PASS");',
+    ]
+    expect_stdout: "PASS"
+}
+
+tabs: {
+    beautify = {
+        beautify: true,
+        indent_start: "\t",
+        indent_level: "\t",
+    }
+    input: {
+        switch (42) {
+          case null:
+            console.log("FAIL");
+        }
+        console.log("PASS");
+    }
+    expect_exact: [
+        "\tswitch (42) {",
+        "\tcase null:",
+        '\t\tconsole.log("FAIL");',
+        "\t}",
+        "",
+        '\tconsole.log("PASS");',
+    ]
+    expect_stdout: "PASS"
+}
+
+mixed: {
+    beautify = {
+        beautify: true,
+        indent_start: "\n",
+        indent_level: "       \t",
+    }
+    input: {
+        switch (42) {
+          case null:
+            console.log("FAIL");
+        }
+        console.log("PASS");
+    }
+    expect_exact: [
+        "",
+        "switch (42) {",
+        "",
+        "    case null:",
+        "",
+        '       \tconsole.log("FAIL");',
+        "",
+        "}",
+        "",
+        "",
+        'console.log("PASS");',
+    ]
+    expect_stdout: "PASS"
+}