On Mar 3, 2009, at 4:20 PM, Ricardo Aráoz wrote: > I've been using dabo's editor today and there are a couple of things > I'd > like to request/know how to set. > I'd like to be able to choose between converting tabs to spaces or > not, > and how many spaces to a tab, the editor has 2 by default and I'm more > comfortable with 4, and I always use conversion from tabs to spaces (I > think is the recommended setting in.... PEP8(?))
<warning... entering land mine area...> I am very familiar with PEP8, and follow most of it, but it is a guideline, and I happen to strongly disagree with the choice of spaces. IMO, the arguments against tabs are blown out of proportion; I've used tabs in Python since day 1 and have never run into a problem with them. But I'm not interested in starting another tabs vs. spaces holy war; Dabo uses tabs by default. If you want to use a spaces-based editor, there are plenty available, and they work well. I can't see investing more time into our editor for something that already exists elsewhere, especially when there is so much more work to do that actually makes a difference. -- Ed Leafe _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: Dabo-users@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/0dbe7326-ba46-4072-b112-e90386758...@leafe.com