[Python-ideas] Pipe indentation

[Andrew Barnert]

On Dec 11, 2013, at 15:45, Steve Dower <Steve.Dower at microsoft.com> wrote:

> A space is always the same width, and tabs are normally rendered as multiple spaces in code editors, so it works just fine. Word wrap is where things get fun... (though I've only had one person complain  that my Visual Studio extension doesn't handle it properly... who wraps code?)

You mean viewing soft-wrapped if it goes beyond the window width? I do that (when I can't just reject or edit the code to fit properly in the first place). Much better than horizontally scrolling, especially in a terminal session. It's ugly no matter what you do, but at least you can see it.

> 
> Top posted from my Windows Phone
> From: Antoine Pitrou
> Sent: ‎12/‎11/‎2013 0:36
> To: python-ideas at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Python-ideas] Pipe indentation
> 
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:21:07 +0900
> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org>
> wrote:
> > Christopher Welborn writes:
> > 
> >  > Here's a link to a screen shot that shows Sublime Text's nesting level 
> >  > lines:
> > 
> >  > http://imgur.com/yRGNCKu
> > 
> >  > ...a lot of editors do this, tab or space.
> > 
> > But do they get it Pythonically correct?  Ie, in counting indentation,
> > 1 TAB = 1 SPC, regardless of what it looks like on screen.
> 
> Generally they're purely graphical, i.e. they don't care about the
> *logical nesting* of your code, only about how many spaces are
> drawn on screen.
> (no, I don't know what it does with a non-monospaced font)
> 
> Regards
> 
> Antoine.
> 
> 
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