Jeffrey E. Forcier wrote: >> I also seem to remember BBEdit not having that >>issue for some reason, but it wasn't worth the price tag for that >>one tweak.
>> TextWrangler/BBEdit is an *excellent* editor, so be sure to try it out >> yourself Yes, it is, but it really doesn't do python indenting quite right. These days, all python code really should be indented with 4 spaces, and while you can set BBedit to put in 4 spaces when you hit the tab key, it doesn't recognize those four spaces as a single level of indentation when you want to delete them, requiring four hits of the backspace key. One would think that this is a minor annoyance, and perhaps it is, but being used to the excellent [X]emacs python mode, I find it very frustrating. A few years ago, there was a thread in this mailing list about his, and someone had even discussed the issue with BB's tech support. Their response was something along the lines of "you shouldn't want to do that", and they therefor will not try to support it. Granted, I'm sure Python coders are a pretty small part of their market, and indentation based languages are few and far between, but at the core was an attitude that they know better than we do what we should want, and even more of an issue, they are in total control of what will and won't be added to BBedit. One reason I don't like closed source software. However, besides being closed source, BBedit does not provide a powerful way for users to customize the editor's behavior themselves. If they did we'd have an excellent python mode by now. Side note: does anyone know how to do selection, cut and paste by columns in BBEdit? The only reason I like [X]emacs is that it has a full-featured mode for every kind of text file I've ever needed to edit, and it has all those modes because users could write them. There is no way the core development team could ever support everything, and everything well for that matter. I'm still looking for a nice modern, platform independent, general purpose, fully customizable (preferably in Python) text editor. SPE is heading that way, and Pepper (http://digitalwandering.com/) still has promise. Does anyone know how customizable jedit is .. in Jython maybe? Sorry for the rant.... -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer NOAA/OR&R/HAZMAT (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig