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From: Darrell Stitt <darrellstitt@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] python indent acme proportional fonts ah joy
Date: Fri,  5 Jan 2007 21:56:51 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <459E2EF3.7010608@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <599f06db0701050242r25680c35j26d7763efb49545f@mail.gmail.com>

mixing tabs and spaces is kind of like hitting your head against the 
wall: causes unnecessary headaches.

the solution? don't do that.

You either chase semicolons and {} in C or just make the whitespace neat 
in python.

Gorka guardiola wrote:
> ¿Isn't cut & paste fun in python?, specially if you have half of the
> files with code
> indented with tabs and the other half with spaces like the Xen stuff did
> the last time I looked into it. Invisible syntax rocks!!.
> 
> 
> On 1/5/07, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
>> reminiscent of the 'free your mind Luke' discussion a few years ago on
>> indents in code and Acme and fonts and  ...
>>
>> I'm finding that I am counting spaces in acme when I get the
>> occasional python 'unindent' error. You may think those columns are
>> aligned, but that's just the proportional font showing.
>>
>> Guess I gotta find a fixed font for editing in acme.



  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-05 10:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-05  3:41 ron minnich
2007-01-05  5:26 ` Russ Cox
2007-01-05  6:44 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-01-05  6:59   ` Bruce Ellis
2007-01-05 10:42 ` Gorka guardiola
2007-01-05 10:56   ` Darrell Stitt [this message]
2007-01-05 14:30     ` Brantley Coile
2007-01-05 17:44       ` geoff
2007-01-05 17:52         ` Paul Lalonde
2007-01-05 17:54         ` Gorka guardiola
2007-01-05 14:15 mattmobile
2007-01-05 14:32 ` Brantley Coile

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