Why whitespace denotation of blocks doesn't work.

[David Arnold]

-->"Ted" == Ted Drain <ted.drain at jpl.nasa.gov> writes:

  Ted> I'll write some code, and as I start debugging/prototyping/etc
  Ted> etc, I find that I have to enclose some existing code in a
  Ted> control block (if,etc).  With C/C++, I just put the code in
  Ted> brace, tell xemacs to re-indent the block, and everything's
  Ted> good.  With Python, I have to hand edit everything because the
  Ted> editor can't figure out how to do the indentation after I've
  Ted> inserted the control block.

if you're using xemacs, i presume you're using python-mode.  in
python-mode, C-c > and C-c < indent and dedent the current region.



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