Carl Banks wrote: > John Salerno wrote: >> So I'm wondering, how do you all handle moving around in your code in >> cases like this? Is there some sort of consistency to these things that >> you can write rules for your text editor to know when to outdent? It >> doesn't seem like you can do this reliably, though. > > Emacs, at least, outdents reliably with spaces. Probably some other > editors do as well, though I was kind of surprised to find out that > some editors have (compared to Emacs) weak indent inference. > > If editing with spaces annoys you, it might be possible with your > editor (which seems to have a variable tab stop) to edit the file with > tabs, but save it with spaces. > > > Carl Banks >
I use UltraEdit right now, and it is possible to convert spaces and tabs back and forth, but it's just an extra step. I was thinking about trying vim, as I've heard it's easier to learn than emacs. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
