[Chicago] Emacs/vim whitespace question

[Jonathan Hayward]

Thank you!

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Adam Jenkins <emperorcezar at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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