[Python-ideas] Pipe indentation

[Ryan Gonzalez]

I now feel dumbfounded because I never knew the -t/-tt option was there
until now...


On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull
> <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> > Chris Angelico writes:
> >
> >  > The upshot is that you get instant feedback if you ever get
> >  > tabs/spaces wrong, and you get nice guides if you always indent
> >  > consistently, and in between is shooting yourself in the foot
> >  > anyway.
> >
> > Sounds like somebody's thought this through pretty carefully!  I'm an
> > emacs guy, so unlikely to switch, but that description sounds like a
> > good specification to start with if we add that kind of functionality
> > to our python-mode.
>
> Probably the first time significant thought was put into this was when
> I designed the -t/-tt option for Python 2. I don't recall when that
> was but it was in a very early Python 2 release. Everything else seems
> just derivative to me -- either the same solution, or buggy. :-)
>
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Ryan
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