Emacs and Indentation

[Cliff Wells]

On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 07:37, Michael Tiller wrote:
[snip]
> does nothing in Emacs (v21.4, windows).  So, I have to go and indent using
> the TAB key.  The problem there is that Emacs doesn't really understand the
> block structure so I get:
> 
>     for x in mylist:
>         if not x in filled:
>             foo[x] = x[1]
>             bar[x] = x[2]
>             y = x # Yikes!
> 
[snip]
> 
>   Surely I can't be the only person who is bugged by this?  Are there ways
> around this?

You can also put a "pass" at the end of a block and emacs will treat
that as a block delimiter (at least in python-mode).  Sort of ugly IMO
but if this really bothers you it may be worth a try.

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Cliff Wells, Software Engineer
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