[Pythonmac-SIG] Selecting in BBEdit & Python Indenting

[Ryan Wilcox]

On 11/29/05, at 9:03 PM, pythonmac-sig-request at python.org said:

>Yes, it is, but it really doesn't do python indenting quite right.
>These days, all python code really should be indented with 4 spaces,
>and while you can set BBedit to put in 4 spaces when you hit the tab
>key, it doesn't recognize those four spaces as a single level of
>indentation when you want to delete them, requiring four hits of the
>backspace key.

There's always the Shift Left and Shift Right command (under the Text menu). Yes, I know it's not a real solution, but it's better than hitting delete four times.

Hmm... another idea would be to write a script and attach it to BBEdit's Save item so that it automatically performs Detab on your source code. Write in tabs, have it automagically convert to spaces. Such a script is below:

--name this "File•Save" and put it in the
--~/Library/BBEdit/Menu Scripts
on MenuSelect(menuName, menuItem)
	tell application "BBEdit"
		set myName to name of document 1
		
		if myName contains ".py" then --python file!!!!
			detab text document 1 tab width 4
		end if
	end tell
	return false --do the save operation
end MenuSelect


HTH,
_Ryan Wilcox

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