[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you're an Emacs user who has used both python-mode.el (the python mode > code distributed with Python and XEmacs) and python.el (the python mode code > distributed with GNU Emacs), I'd like to get your impressions on how they > compare and where you feel the bugs lie. I'm nominally one of the > python-mode.el maintainers (though not very active) but have never tried the > GNU python.el.
One of the two modes (if memory serves, python.el) has an annoying bug/feature where indent-region is essentially implemented as "hit tab once on every line in the region". Of course, this frequently does the wrong thing as "tab" has to guess the right indentation in cases where there are multiple possibilities. So this frequently messes up the semantics of the code. This is the main reason why I always use the other mode (if memory serves, python-mode.el) these days, which keeps the logical structure of the code intact with indent-region. I frequently use (setq py-indent-offset 4) + indent-region to reformat my old code which used 2-space indents, so this is a feature that is important to me. Malte -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
