[Chicago] Emacs/vim whitespace question

[Adam Jenkins]

I use emacs all day ever day for work in Django. In my experience, the
default emacs mode works quite well.

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Jonathan Hayward <
christos.jonathan.hayward at gmail.com> wrote:

> In vim you want a few settings in your vimrc to handle Python and in
> particular to avoid annoying behavior. Turning on autoindent alone leaves
> you subject to a nasty surprise re: significant whitespace. If you edit
> existing code indented in one part to eight spaces, and append a line below
> it, vim's default behavior at least in the past has been to indent an
> "equivalent" equal to one tab, resulting in the Python compiler complaining
> about not matching a previous indent.
>
> Are there any inappropriate behaviors like this in an unconfigured emacs,
> and if so, could I have appropriate settings material to say "Be nice to
> Python"?
>
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