Gregory Ewing wrote: > Anders J. Munch wrote: >> > Cameron Simpson wrote: >> >> Personally, I like to use the tab _key_ as an input device, but to >> >> have my editor write real spaces to the file in consequence. >> Just like in the old days:) > > Most editors can be configured to do that.
True. > Where they fall down, in my experience, is that having inserted > those spaces, if you want to delete them you typically have to > backspace over them one at a time. Now that's a BAD source code editor! Try one running on the Eclipse platform, like PyDev (single plugin or in Aptana, also as Eclipse plugin). But, even vim(1) has auto-indent *and* `<<', so … > I don't enjoy that experience, which is why I have BBEdit Lite > set up to use tab-only indentation. If I'm feeling conscientious, > I convert to spaces before sharing the code with others. But tabs > work better for me given the tools I use and the way I like to > work. YMMV, of course. -- PointedEars Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail. / Please do not Cc: me. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list