Using tabs instead of spaces in IDLE?

[Philip Swartzleonard]

Carl Banks || Thu 14 Feb 2002 10:43:49p:

> Courageous wrote:
>> 
>>>> This sounds ingenious, but what happens when you save the
>>>> file and load it back? Does it remember this information
>>>> somehow, or does it get lost?
>>>
>>>The editor remembers this information by saving it in the text file
>>>itself.
>> 
>> I believe that you're answering a different question than what
>> he asked.
> 
> Yeah.  Although the question was about vim, my mind was still thinking
> Emacs from a few posts ago.  Emacs scans the line(s) above to
> determine how to unindent, i.e., all of the unindent information is
> saved in the file.

Perhaps more clearly: The formatting of the code itself is the unindent 
information; emacs examines the code struture to figure out how to do this 
(and other things).

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