On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:24:26 -0700, John Nagle wrote: > fortunatus wrote: >> On Aug 14, 1:01 pm, vippstar <vipps...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Why would you fill your website with junk? >> >> The OP made it clear: >> >>> Just wanted to express some frustration with whitespace-mode. > > Well, it took until Python 3.0 until Python enforced rules that > ensured that the indentation the user sees is the same indentation the > compiler sees. We finally have a solution that allows both tabs and > spaces but disallows the situations which are ambiguous. Until Python > 3.0 is fully deployed, there are situations when you need an insane > level of tab/space visibility. Blame Python, not EMACS.
You know, there are situations outside of Python where it is useful to see otherwise invisible characters. I was using Microsoft Word's "Show Invisibles" functionality years before Python even existed. Being able to see a visual glyph in place of whitespace (including line ending characters) is not just useful for editing indentation. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
