Detlev Offenbach wrote:
On Freitag, 2. Januar 2009, Geert Vancompernolle wrote:
Hi,
When selecting "Settings | Preferences... | Editor | Typing", you can
select to configure typing for Python and Ruby. When selecting Python,
you have the option to chose for automatic dedents of "else/elif" and
"except/finally".
That same mechanism would be very handy for "def" when writing classes
too, but I can't find a way to do that.
What should be the dedent criteria for this use case?
I would say, the moment the 4 chars "def " are typed, one could dedend
the line according the following criteria:
"if there was a previous "def", the following "def" should start at the
same column, else the "def" should start at column 1"
This would catch 2 cases:
* the "def" belongs to a class: this "def" would start 4 char locations
to the right, compared to the column the class was started. Subsequent
"def" statements would start at the same indented column
* the "def" is an isolated function: this "def" should start at column
1. Subsequent "def" statements should also start at location 1, since
they will also not be part of a class
If the writer has defined a class with several "def" statements and he
now wants to define an "isolated" "def", he can dedend by typing
Shift-Tab (or whatever, to move the cursor to column 1). From then
onwards, al subsequent "def" statements would also start at location 1,
until again a class is defined.
I might overlook other situations, but this could be taken as a start.
--
Best rgds,
Geert
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