Re: [Webware-devel] Fixing doc strings

2002-06-21 Thread Edmund Lian
Chuck wrote: >But now you have let me down! VIM > >;-) > > >I personally recommend: > Kate on linux > UltraEdit on windows > or: > SciTE on * Mumble, mumble... I needed to use something that didn't require a GUI, could run over a telnet session, and was cross-platform. Once you have the

Re: [Webware-devel] Fixing doc strings

2002-06-21 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On Thursday 20 June 2002 12:01 pm, 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

Re: [Webware-devel] Fixing doc strings

2002-06-20 Thread Edmund Lian
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

Re: [Webware-devel] Fixing doc strings

2002-06-20 Thread Tavis Rudd
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

Re: [Webware-devel] Fixing doc strings

2002-06-20 Thread Edmund Lian
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

Re: [Webware-devel] Fixing doc strings

2002-06-20 Thread Ian Bicking
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

Re: [Webware-devel] Fixing doc strings

2002-06-20 Thread Tavis Rudd
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

Re: [Webware-devel] Fixing doc strings

2002-06-20 Thread Edmund Lian
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

Re: [Webware-devel] Fixing doc strings

2002-06-20 Thread Tavis Rudd
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

Re: [Webware-devel] Fixing doc strings

2002-06-20 Thread Tavis Rudd
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

Re: [Webware-devel] Fixing doc strings

2002-06-20 Thread Ian Bicking
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

Re: [Webware-devel] Fixing doc strings

2002-06-20 Thread Edmund Lian
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. -

RE: [Webware-devel] Fixing doc strings

2002-06-20 Thread Geoffrey Talvola
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