On 2017-03-19, Erik <pyt...@lucidity.plus.com> wrote: > On 19/03/17 22:29, Jon Ribbens wrote: >> Not to mention plenty of editors (e.g. vim) will unindent when you >> press backspace. > > I don't think that's strictly true. If you have just indented with a tab > character, then backspace will delete that tab character. But, if you > indent with either 4 spaces or use the Tab key with "expandtab" enabled, > then it will just delete the right-most space character.
The option you want is "smarttab", then it will behave as I describe. (Or install the "vim-sensible" settings, which I highly recommend.) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
