Ok, I got you. I'll add it to the todo list for 4.3. Regards, Detlev
On Dienstag, 6. Januar 2009, Geert Vancompernolle wrote: > Detlev Offenbach wrote: > > On Freitag, 2. Januar 2009, Geert Vancompernolle wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> When selecting "Settings | Preferences... | Editor | Typing", you can > >> select to configure typing for Python and Ruby. When selecting Python, > >> you have the option to chose for automatic dedents of "else/elif" and > >> "except/finally". > >> > >> That same mechanism would be very handy for "def" when writing classes > >> too, but I can't find a way to do that. > > > > What should be the dedent criteria for this use case? > > I would say, the moment the 4 chars "def " are typed, one could dedend > the line according the following criteria: > > "if there was a previous "def", the following "def" should start at the > same column, else the "def" should start at column 1" > > This would catch 2 cases: > * the "def" belongs to a class: this "def" would start 4 char locations > to the right, compared to the column the class was started. Subsequent > "def" statements would start at the same indented column > * the "def" is an isolated function: this "def" should start at column > 1. Subsequent "def" statements should also start at location 1, since > they will also not be part of a class > > If the writer has defined a class with several "def" statements and he > now wants to define an "isolated" "def", he can dedend by typing > Shift-Tab (or whatever, to move the cursor to column 1). From then > onwards, al subsequent "def" statements would also start at location 1, > until again a class is defined. > > I might overlook other situations, but this could be taken as a start. -- Detlev Offenbach [email protected] _______________________________________________ Eric mailing list [email protected] http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/eric
