> Won't the following rules work when pasting complete Python statements > and complete lines, after other lines in an editor: > > lets call the line after which the block is to be pasted the paste > line, and the original indent of the first line of the copied block to > be pasted the copy indent. > > If the paste line ends in a colon then the copy indent must be greater > than the paste line indent, or the copy block should be re-indented on > pasting to make it so. > If the paste line does not end in a colon then the copy block indent > should be equal too or less than the paste line indent. If this is not > the case then the user should be asked wether to re-indent the copy > block to be equal to, or de-dented w.r.t. the paste line indent prior > to pasting.
Could be done that way - but is it a killer feature? I doubt it, but maybe you convince somebody to implement it. Yet it certainly doesn't justify a wikipedia edit - the FAQ entry is right, and there is no way of auto-indenting python code that for some reason suffered from indention mix-up. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
