Programming on the Mac

[yvonne thomson]

Hi all.

I've just spent half the afternoon battling with something that, I  
hope someone can give me some advice on.

One of the main languages I program in is Python, and a big part of  
that is significant whitespace. In other words, blocks of code are  
defined by how far the code is indented, rather than using braces or  
end statements like in other languages.

The problem I'm having is, well, how can you easily tell how many  
spaces a line is indented by? Has anyone else had this problem? Or is  
there another way to deal with this sort of thing? I've spent far too  
many years in emacspeak, I'm afraid, where info like this gets handed  
to you on a silver platter, <grin>.

Any suggestions or possible slaps over the head with the blatantly  
obvious solution are gratefully accepted.