Faheem Mitha wrote:
> Bob Proulx makes good points elsewhere in this thread. Whether you
> like the indentation as syntax feature is really a matter of
> taste. Personally, I am ambivalent about it. On the one hand it makes
> code more compact. On the other hand, indentation is easily lost
> information, for example when cutting and pasting. Also, I have the
> habit in emacs of hitting tab to get code to line up. I've done this
> for years, and it is a hard habit to break. Unfortunately it has
> disastrous consequences in python code.
So have EMACS treat the tab key as the equivolent number of spaces and
write the file out using spaces instead of tabs. I'd tell you how but I'm a
vim user and that is how vim handles it.
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