Hi Andrew,
On 3/12/19 9:01 pm, Andrew Barnert wrote:
On Dec 2, 2019, at 21:00, Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> wrote:
3) I have been known to hold a ruler against my screen to double-check
indentation.
Well, if that isn’t part of your integrated development environment, you just
need to switch to emacs and give it control of a 3D printer and a robot and it
can integrate holding up a ruler for you. :)
But more seriously, the unobtrusive colored vertical indent-guide lines (that I
think Sublime popularized, but lots of editors do it now, including at least
two variations for emacs) really do solve this for me just as well, even with
horrible random-indentation code. The only reason I still use the keystroke to
highlight the start of the block instead is too many decades of muscle memory
using emacs.
That doesn’t help when there’s so much code in the inner block that it doesn’t
fit on the screen, so I can’t trace the line up to the start. But does a ruler
help any better? And would an “end for”?
Yep. It does for me :-)
For example you'd easily and quickly see the difference between "end
for" and "end while".
cheers,
Jan
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