shared/readline: Make tab insert an indent when it follows whitespace.

Entering tab at the REPL will now make it insert an indent (4 spaces) in
the following cases:
- after any whitespace on a line
- at the start of a line that is not the first line

This changes the existing behaviour where a tab would insert an indent only
if there were no matches in the auto-complete search, and it was the start
of the line.  This means, if there were any symbols in the global
namespace, tab could never be used to indent.

Note that entering tab at the start of the first line will still do
auto-completion, but will now do nothing if there are no symbols in the
global namespace, which is more consistent than before.

Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/shared/readline/readline.c b/shared/readline/readline.c
index cad85b4e6..915bcda84 100644
--- a/shared/readline/readline.c
+++ b/shared/readline/readline.c
@@ -222,7 +222,22 @@ int readline_process_char(int c) {
         } else if (c == 9) {
             // tab magic
             const char *compl_str;
-            size_t compl_len = mp_repl_autocomplete(rl.line->buf + rl.orig_line_len, rl.cursor_pos - rl.orig_line_len, &mp_plat_print, &compl_str);
+            size_t compl_len;
+            if (vstr_len(rl.line) != 0 && unichar_isspace(vstr_str(rl.line)[rl.cursor_pos - 1])) {
+                // expand tab to 4 spaces if it follows whitespace:
+                //  - includes the case of additional indenting
+                //  - includes the case of indenting the start of a line that's not the first line,
+                //    because a newline will be the previous character
+                //  - doesn't include the case when at the start of the first line, because we still
+                //    want to use auto-complete there
+                compl_str = "    ";
+                compl_len = 4;
+            } else {
+                // try to auto-complete a word
+                const char *cur_line_buf = vstr_str(rl.line) + rl.orig_line_len;
+                size_t cur_line_len = rl.cursor_pos - rl.orig_line_len;
+                compl_len = mp_repl_autocomplete(cur_line_buf, cur_line_len, &mp_plat_print, &compl_str);
+            }
             if (compl_len == 0) {
                 // no match
             } else if (compl_len == (size_t)(-1)) {