On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 00:20, Georg Brandl <g.bra...@gmx.net> wrote: > Jeffrey Yasskin schrieb: >> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: >>> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >>>> Guido van Rossum <guido <at> python.org> writes: >>>>> >>>>> I think we should not do this. We should use 4 space indents for new >>>>> files, but existing files should not be reindented. >>>> >>>> Well, right now many files are indented with a mix of spaces and tabs, >>>> depending >>>> on who did the edit and how their editor was configured at the time. >>> >>> That's a shame. We used to have more rigorous standards than allowing that. >>> >>>> Perhaps a graceful policy would be to mandate that all new edits be made >>>> with >>>> spaces without touching other functions in the file. Then hopefully the >>>> code >>>> base would gradually converge to a tabless scheme. >>> >>> I don't think so. I find local consistency more important than global >>> consistency. A file can become really hard to read when different >>> indentation schemes are used in random parts of the code. >>> >>> If you have a problem configuring your editor, just say so and someone >>> will explain how to do it. >> >> I've never figured out how to configure emacs to deduce whether the >> current file uses spaces or tabs and has a 4 or 8 space indent. I >> always try to get it right anyway, but it'd be a lot more convenient >> if my editor did it for me. If there are such instructions, perhaps >> they should be added to PEPs 7 and 8? > > I use this little hack to detect indentation in Python's C files: > > (defun c-select-style () > "Hack: Select the C style to use from buffer indentation." > (save-excursion > (if (re-search-forward "^\t" 3000 t) > (c-set-style "python") > (c-set-style "python-new")))) > > (add-hook 'c-mode-hook 'c-select-style) > > -- where "python" and "python-new" are two appropriate c-mode styles. >
Anyone have something similar for Vim? -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
