On June 20, 2002 10:06 am, Chuck Esterbrook wrote: > On Thursday 20 June 2002 09:13 am, Mike Orr wrote: > > Indentation is the biggest reason I don't use emacs. It > > tries to be so smart that it won't let you override its opinion of > > where the line should start. But sometimes I want to put an extra > > indent in continuation lines in my comments, and emacs refuses to > > allow it.
That's not completely true. Emacs will let you put whatever indentation you want in continuation lines, but the [tab] key has been remapped to use "its opinion of where the line should start." The trick is to use one of several other methods of inserting indentation. Also, with multi-line continuations you only need to set your custom indentation on the first line of the continuation. It will figure out the rest from there. > I concur. Emacs is too smart for its own good! But it also allows you customize almost every aspect of its behaviour. > On Thursday 20 June 2002 09:12 am, Ian Bicking wrote: > > Doc strings should use """ (not '''), and that usually gets rid of > > the problem. Webware still has ''' scattered throughout many > > classes, and that causes problems... I guess that should be fixed. > > > > Emacs is great for everything in your life. > > Except using ''' for doc strings! Emacs proponents often push a subset > of Python, in order that it work better with their editor. That's very > odd, from a language perspective. What subset? The only other thing we've had debates about are the run-on lines in Webware code. That's an issue of style and readability, not restricting the language. And that's not an emacs issue anyway. Run-on lines look hideous in most tools. Tavis ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
