Odd, I always use 2 spaces, and haven't really heard 4 was standard.
I don't keep up much with those things, though :)
Tabs are certainly allowed. There is a potential difficulty in mixing
tabs and spaces in the same file, since it is unclear how many spaces
go into a tab, so there is potent
On Nov 30, 2005, at 8:11 AM, Louis Pecora wrote:
>> I run into this all the time in C with those I develop with. We try
>> to keep it to spaces but some people forget that their editor puts in
>> a tab automatically for 8 spaces and then spaces after that to column
>> 12 for example. Then my edit
On 29-nov-2005, at 18:33, Louis Pecora wrote:
> What the heck were they (Guido?) thinking when they used 4 spaces
> as the one true mode of indentation for Python?
Initially Python was unix-only, and there (at that time) a tab was 8
spaces and that is that, no problem with mixing tab/spaces.
Rob Managan wrote:
> Because in a mixed environment some one will take a file that has
>
>tabs and add spaces or vice versa. As soon as lines have a mixture of
>tabs and spaces then the display does ugly things when you change
>editors.
>
>I run into this all the time in C with those I develop w
>On Nov 29, 2005, at 4:54 PM, Louis Pecora wrote:
>
>> Kent Quirk wrote:
>>
>>> Just because there seems to be an orgy of people agreeing that
>>> Tabs are the One True Way, I feel a need to point out that there
>>> are those of us who fervently believe that Tabs Are Evil. The
>>> reason is
On Nov 29, 2005, at 4:54 PM, Louis Pecora wrote:
> Kent Quirk wrote:
>
>> Just because there seems to be an orgy of people agreeing that
>> Tabs are the One True Way, I feel a need to point out that there
>> are those of us who fervently believe that Tabs Are Evil. The
>> reason is that tab
Kent Quirk wrote:
>Just because there seems to be an orgy of people agreeing that Tabs are the
>One True Way, I feel a need to point out that there are those of us who
>fervently believe that Tabs Are Evil. The reason is that tabs are interpreted
>differently in different places, and they're in
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Chris Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-11-29 20:40:
> > I would think that TAB would be infinitely better and avoid the
> > problems you point out that probably plague a lot of editors when
> > doing Python code.
>
> I agree. Tabs would be easier in most cases, but:
Thank you, while I really like
Louis Pecora wrote:
> You hold down the option key while selecting, but you cannot do this
> in the soft wrap mode. You have to set the window to hard wrap at
> some column number. If you have the BBEdit manual, you can find more
> info around page 52 or just look in the index.
thanks.
> What
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