Ed Leafe wrote: > 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...> > Oops! Didn't realize that. You're right.
> 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. > Ok, just a silly request (so asking for option to define the length of tabs would be sillier, won't do it). --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ 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/49ae4fcb.4050...@gmail.com
