best text editor for programming Python on a Mac
Lawrence D’Oliveiro
lawrencedo99 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 18 22:51:57 EDT 2016
On Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 2:09:31 PM UTC+12, Michael Torrie wrote:
> It was later on that they figured out the N+1 thing you mentioned by
> ignoring the character cells:
>
> 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
> H E L L O W O R L D
>
> That works well for interactive editing, but it doesn't lend itself as
> well to scripting and working with the contents of the text cells.
Emacs scripting works perfectly well with this convention.
> I like that with vim I can see immediately whether there is trailing
> space on a line just by jumping to the end of the line ($) which will
> drop the cursor on the last actual character.
Emacs has an option (which I have enabled) which shows trailing white space throughout your entire file in bright red. And I have also defined a single keystroke that will get rid of it all.
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