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. Under windows, I'm using SciTE which is an extremely lightweight editor, but it handlers "smart unindent": pressing backspace at the beginning of a line unindents one level, whether you're indenting with tabs (and need to remove a tab) or space (and need to remove 2, 4, 8 spaces) doesn't matter. And since SciTE also has Visual Studio's smart home key (home brings you first at the beginning of the text == current indent, then at the beginning of the line itself == indent level 0)
SciTE also features "somewhat smart" indent from time to time: it indents one level after a ":". This is good for if/else/while/..., but it also indents one level after ":" in dicts, which is way bad. Oh, and it automatically unindents one level after a "return" statement. Other than that, SciTE doesn't really "understand" python, if you want a really pythonic editor you need to check Stani's Python Editor, WingsIDE or Komodo. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
