On Mar 3, 2009, at 4:20 PM, Ricardo Aráoz wrote:
> I've been using dabo's editor today and there are a couple of things
> I'd
> like to request/know how to set.
> I'd like to be able to choose between converting tabs to spaces or
> not,
> and how many spaces to a tab, the editor has 2 by default and I'm more
> comfortable with 4, and I always use conversion from tabs to spaces (I
> think is the recommended setting in.... PEP8(?))
<warning... entering land mine area...>
I am very familiar with PEP8, and follow most of it, but it is a
guideline, and I happen to strongly disagree with the choice of
spaces. IMO, the arguments against tabs are blown out of proportion;
I've used tabs in Python since day 1 and have never run into a problem
with them. But I'm not interested in starting another tabs vs. spaces
holy war; Dabo uses tabs by default.
If you want to use a spaces-based editor, there are plenty available,
and they work well. I can't see investing more time into our editor
for something that already exists elsewhere, especially when there is
so much more work to do that actually makes a difference.
-- Ed Leafe
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