On Nov 6, 5:21 pm, m...@distorted.org.uk (Mark Wooding) wrote: > Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes: > > As for tools' brokeness regarding spaces/tabs/indentation heres a > > thread on the emacs list wherein emacs dev Stefan Monnier admits to > > the fact that emacs' handling in this regard is not perfect. > > >http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.help/browse_thread/thread/1b... > > You've misunderstood. That discussion is about configuring Emacs to not > do automatic indentation when the `tab' key is pressed or when > language-specific punctuation is entered. It has very little to do with > tab characters in files.
The OP there clearly says he needs help in dealing consistently with 'tabbed' files. Mixing up these 2 issues (actually 3) is the 'Eternal Holy War' that Jamie Zawinski talks about here http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html Note: I am in no way supporting the demand that python should suddenly get 'braced' beacuse: a. this would do too much violence to the essential -- 'executable- pseudo-code' -- spirit of the language b. Anyway for me personally python and haskell are two of my favorites and one their common features is this: indentation == program structure I am only pointing to the fact that one of the widely used and super- powerful editors is less than perfect in this regard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
