Re: [Tutor] usage difference between tabs and spaces

2014-09-10 Thread Timo
Op 10-09-14 om 01:30 schreef Alan Gauld: Its not, as others have already said, you set the tab key to insert spaces. Of course you usually have to delete those spaces manually - but hopefully that's a relatively rare event - and there are usually short cuts to delete to start of line.! Shift+ta

Re: [Tutor] usage difference between tabs and spaces

2014-09-09 Thread Mirage Web Studio
Thank you and everybody else for the reply. I am using pycharm and i have found the way to produce four spaces for single tab key press. George On 10-Sep-14 2:32 AM, Danny Yoo wrote: I am not an advanced programmer, but am very good with keyboard and find using tabs for syntax and formatt

Re: [Tutor] usage difference between tabs and spaces

2014-09-09 Thread boB Stepp
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Mirage Web Studio wrote: > > Hello, > > I am not an advanced programmer, but am very good with keyboard and find > using tabs for syntax and formatting very helpful. But in this list and > other python documentation i have repeatedly seen people recommending > use o

Re: [Tutor] usage difference between tabs and spaces

2014-09-09 Thread Alan Gauld
On 09/09/14 13:27, Mirage Web Studio wrote: would like to understand why hitting the poor keyboard 4/8/12 times is preferred than just hitting it 1/2/3 times. Its not, as others have already said, you set the tab key to insert spaces. Of course you usually have to delete those spaces manually

Re: [Tutor] usage difference between tabs and spaces

2014-09-09 Thread Danny Yoo
> I am not an advanced programmer, but am very good with keyboard and find > using tabs for syntax and formatting very helpful. But in this list and > other python documentation i have repeatedly seen people recommending > use of spaces. Usually, you want to match the style used by the majority o

Re: [Tutor] usage difference between tabs and spaces

2014-09-09 Thread William Ray Wing
On Sep 9, 2014, at 8:27 AM, Mirage Web Studio wrote: > > Hello, > > I am not an advanced programmer, but am very good with keyboard and find > using tabs for syntax and formatting very helpful. But in this list and > other python documentation i have repeatedly seen people recommending > use of

Re: [Tutor] usage difference between tabs and spaces

2014-09-09 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Mirage Web Studio wrote: > > Hello, > > I am not an advanced programmer, but am very good with keyboard and find > using tabs for syntax and formatting very helpful. But in this list and > other python documentation i have repeatedly seen people recommending > use o

[Tutor] usage difference between tabs and spaces

2014-09-09 Thread Mirage Web Studio
Hello, I am not an advanced programmer, but am very good with keyboard and find using tabs for syntax and formatting very helpful. But in this list and other python documentation i have repeatedly seen people recommending use of spaces. I know that i can use any of them and use tabs as my prefe