Read and respond to this message at: https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=4354381 By: clabrown
I'm sure tab expansion is supposed to work as expected in Eclipse/Pydev. Maybe I'm missing something. I've only been using this for a few days (just started learning Python) but I've used programmer's editors for years (NOT Eclipse or Pydev) where code completion and tab expansion work "as expected". Now I've encountered this: x snip ..... import MySQLdb # MySQL functions import csv # Comma Seperated files import optparse # Fancy command line option parsing x snip ..... Basically I typed "import", "space", the_module_name, then hit one or more tabs to line up the comments. The 3rd line won't line up. I see no reason that Eclipse/PyDev shouldn't line up all the above comment lines by expanding the Tab key to the appropriate number of space to hit the specified 4 space tab expansion TabStops. It looks like an error to me. What gives? I can't possibly believe that Eclipse/Pydev with all the positive press and buzz can't handle something that I've considered standard since the late '80s like expanding TABs to a set number of spaces consistently. Now I guess I could stop using the tab key and just count spaces manually and hit the space bar, but I'm too lazy for that ... after all I'm trying out Python where I can apparently control the world in less than 10 lines of code <grin>. (actually some of my little test hacks of less than 20 lines have opened a MySQL database performed a query and output a CSV file... I am pretty impressed <grin> ... but what's up with tabs? Thanks, Cla. ______________________________________________________________________ You are receiving this email because you elected to monitor this forum. To stop monitoring this forum, login to SourceForge.net and visit: https://sourceforge.net/forum/unmonitor.php?forum_id=293649 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Pydev-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pydev-users
