Should you use vi (vim) the following in your .vimrc file should display tabs as 4 spaces and more importantly insert 4 spaces instead of a tab when you hit the tab key.
set ts=4 set shiftwidth=4 set expandtab On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Johnathan Corgan < jcor...@corganenterprises.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 06:20, Tim Pearce <timothy.pea...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Checking it on my copy here it looks like the script is playing the > > dangerous game of mixing tabs + spaces so the actual indentation you see > on > > your text editor depends on how it treats tabs. Whether it works or not > then > > depends on how python chooses to treat the tabs. > > I'll fess up to having committed such Python treachery by having made > some of those edits using an editor that didn't handle space/tabs > consistently. I have since learned the error of my ways and have gone > down the Emacs path to redemption :-) > > Seriously, though, it's one of the few downsides to Python, but an > important one--multiple developers should standardize on an editor to > avoid issues like this. Most of the code in GNU Radio has been > written in Emacs. > > Johnathan > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio >
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