From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) In-Reply-To: References: <775b8d1905021412313a0ec28d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <53e74417c0cef8231749dd537fc29bbc@davidashen.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: David Tolpin Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: plan9port: recent changes Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:51:18 +0400 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>, Russ Cox Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 47bf0c02-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On 15.02.2005, at 0:49, Russ Cox wrote: >> i don't like autoindent ... it always seems to do what i don't >> want it to do, the tab key is big, and i don't write deeply >> nested code. but if you do - fine ... make it an option (i hate >> thousands of options too). > > it's not the usual "guess where my cursor should be" autoindent. > when you type newline, it initializes the new line by copying the > leading white space from the previous line. it's more of a > persistent indent than autoindent. in any case, it's the first one > i've ever used that felt natural. Yes, it's a good edition to Sam. I had implemented it over a year ago (and was beaten for that on 9fans), and using Sam for programming is much easier with it. I still use the old unix port of Sam, which runs without plan9port, and the two useful editions are the handling of tabstop environment variable and the autoindent. David