[Python-Dev] Any Emacs tips for core developers?

[Alexandre Vassalotti]

On Feb 4, 2008 7:47 PM,  <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>    >> I should have asked this before, but what's so special about core
>    >> (Python?)  development that the tools should be different than for
>    >> non-core development?
>
>    Brett> Usually the core has keywords, built-ins, etc. that have not been
>    Brett> pushed to the release versions for various editors.
>
> Ah, okay.  Barry mentioned something about adjusting the python-mode syntax
> tables to include Python 3.x stuff, though patches are always
> welcome. <wink>
>
>    Brett> Plus coding guidelines might be different from PEPs 7 and 8
>    Brett> compared to what an editor is set to do by default.
>
> That might be a bit more challenging.  I was thinking today that it would be
> kind of nice to have a set of predefined settings for Python's new C style
> (someone mentioned producing that).  Should that go in the C/C++ mode or be
> delivered somehow else?
>

It's fairly trivial to adjust cc-mode to conform PEP 7 C coding convention:

(defmacro def-styled-c-mode (name style &rest body)
  "Define styled C modes."
  `(defun ,name ()
     (interactive)
     (c-mode)
     (c-set-style ,style)
     , at body))

(def-styled-c-mode python-c-mode "python"
  (setq indent-tabs-mode t
        tab-width 8
        c-basic-offset 8))

(def-styled-c-mode py3k-c-mode "python"
  (setq indent-tabs-mode nil
        tab-width 4
        c-basic-offset 4))


-- Alexandre