Larry Wall's comment on python...

[Kevin Reid]

Greg Ewing <see_reply_address at something.invalid> wrote:

> C. Laurence Gonsalves wrote:
> 
> > > there are some environments in which tabs-only is the only sane
> > > thing to use, e.g. BBEdit and many other code editors on Mac.
> >
> > Why is that?
> 
> Because BBEdit's shift-left and shift-right commands only work with
> tab-indented lines.

It has space versions of those commands. By default you must hold down a
modifier key (I don't remember which) to access them in the menu bar.
You can reassign the key combinations (Edit -> Set Menu Keys...) to make
them directly accessible.

-- 
Kevin Reid