Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> writes: > I like tab-completion, but I'd rather not be reduced to typing > spaces for indents in the interpreter. What do other people do?
Acknowledge that using U+0009 for indentation is wrong, and use beautiful U+0020 always. > The GNU readline library claims that M-tab (which I guess is > Alt-tab) will enter a tab character. “M-tab” is Emacs-speak for “<Meta> plus <Tab>”. Not all keyboards have “Alt”, you see (maybe none, when Emacs first started referring to the Meta modifier?). In most terminal programs, you can send “<Alt>-<foo>” also by pressing “<Esc>, <foo>” (two separate keystrokes in sequence). > Any other suggestions or hints? Suck it up and accept the truth! U+0020 is the unambiguous indentation character that always does what it should, and U+0009 is a horrible mistake which must be suppressed with extreme prejudice. No true Pythonista would disagree. -- \ “No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.” | `\ —Turkish proverb | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list