On 19/03/17 22:29, Jon Ribbens wrote:
On 2017-03-19, breamore...@gmail.com <breamore...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sunday, March 19, 2017 at 9:54:52 PM UTC, Larry Hudson wrote:
A trivial point (and irrelevant)... The thing I find annoying
about an editor set to expand tabs to spaces is that it takes one
keypress to indent but four (or whatever) to unindent.
No, just about every editor that I've ever used has SHIFT-TAB set to
undo whatever TAB does.
Not to mention plenty of editors (e.g. vim) will unindent when you
press backspace.
I don't think that's strictly true. If you have just indented with a tab
character, then backspace will delete that tab character. But, if you
indent with either 4 spaces or use the Tab key with "expandtab" enabled,
then it will just delete the right-most space character.
The closest I've come to an "unindent" in vim so far is Ctrl-D, which
backs up one "shift width's" worth.
For sanity, in 'vim', I always use (for my own Python code, at least):
:set sw=4 ts=4 expandtabs
That way, all tab keypresses insert 4 spaces instead of a tab and the
shift operations ('<' and '>') will do the same. This also means the
"back up one shift-width" command (Ctrl-D) is the same as a "dedent".
If you also use the autoindent setting (:set ai), then writing code is
as easy as pressing enter and Tab to start a new suite, enter only to
continue a suite, and enter and Ctrl-D to drop back to the outer suite.
E.
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