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 source code.
That would be nice, but it won't happen anytime soon. I think it would mean significant changes to Emacs (not just the Python mode). It seems like there's something in the Emacs parsing code that presumes one-character tokens (parenthesis, quotes, etc). > Once everybody starts going down the path of adapting coding habits to the > limitations and idiosyncracies of editors, there'll be no end of trouble. > E.g., "oh, editor X doesn't handle Y well, so let's not use Y either, since > we did the same for Emacs". I can't see any particular reason why one > should favor helping Emacs over another editor... Because there are many people using Emacs as their primary IDE, and using """ isn't a big deal. If some other major editor had an issue that was trivial to fix, then that would be fine by me. Of course, there are very few editors that are "major", but so be it. Ian ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Webware-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-devel
