Tavis wrote:
> let me rephrase that last line ... the benefits of making
> emacs users 'like' reading Webware code far outweigh the
> costs of letting someone else switch the code over to """
> instead of ''' and it is no inconvenience to other users.
I understand, really! :-)
Thanks to Ian
On June 20, 2002 12:13 pm, Tavis Rudd wrote:
> Edmund,
> I agree that this problem with Emacs should be fixed. However, I disagree
> with your argument. Take it to the extreme and you end up with statements
> like "Operation system X has a broken implementation of Y, but who cares!
> That's their
Tavis wrote:
> I agree that this problem with Emacs should be fixed. However, I disagree
with
> your argument. Take it to the extreme and you end up with statements
like
> "Operation system X has a broken implementation of Y, but who cares!
That's
> their problem. Why should our code be cripple
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 14:01, Edmund Lian wrote:
>
> Ian and Tavis, thanks for the quick reply regarding single versus double
> quoted triplets. Seems to me though, that if the issue is Emacs can't
> understand triple quoted strings that use apostrophes, then Emacs should be
> fixed, not Python so
Edmund,
I agree that this problem with Emacs should be fixed. However, I disagree with
your argument. Take it to the extreme and you end up with statements like
"Operation system X has a broken implementation of Y, but who cares! That's
their problem. Why should our code be crippled because th
Ian and Tavis, thanks for the quick reply regarding single versus double
quoted triplets. Seems to me though, that if the issue is Emacs can't
understand triple quoted strings that use apostrophes, then Emacs should be
fixed, not Python source code.
Once everybody starts going down the path of a
Here's the full explanation:
http://www.python.org/emacs/python-mode/faq.html
On June 20, 2002 11:40 am, Edmund Lian wrote:
> Ian Bicking wrote:
> >I'd like to fix all the '''-quoted doc strings in Webware (replacing
> >them with """).
>
> I must have missed the discussion about this... what's wr
Emacs mucks up the syntax highlighting when the ''' strings contain unbalanced
' inside of them. The same problem exists with """ and unbalanced ", but it
is less common. Emacs is truly braindead in this case.
On June 20, 2002 11:40 am, Edmund Lian wrote:
> Ian Bicking wrote:
> >I'd like to f
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 13:40, Edmund Lian wrote:
>
> Ian Bicking wrote:
>
> >I'd like to fix all the '''-quoted doc strings in Webware (replacing
> >them with """).
>
> I must have missed the discussion about this... what's wrong with ''' doc
> strings? I've been using these because it's easier
Ian Bicking wrote:
>I'd like to fix all the '''-quoted doc strings in Webware (replacing
>them with """).
I must have missed the discussion about this... what's wrong with ''' doc
strings? I've been using these because it's easier to type than """...
...Edmund.
-
My advice is: Try to do that change only, without other changes, in a single
CVS checkin. That way it's easier to look at diffs in the CVS history later
-- you won't be mixing in these many cosmetic changes with other substantive
changes.
- Geoff
> -Original Message-
> From: Ian Bicking
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