"Chris Barker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
This annoyed me too, which why I'm not using TextWrangler :-) I've submitted a patch for Smultron that does this when "indent with spaces" is turned on: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1356887&group_id=110857&atid=657594 -- |>|\/|< /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ |David M. Cooke http://arbutus.physics.mcmaster.ca/dmc/ |[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
