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From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: plan9port: recent changes
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:49:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a050214124956d47a0b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <775b8d1905021412313a0ec28d@mail.gmail.com>

> 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.

russ


  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-14 20:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-14  0:41 [9fans] " Russ Cox
2005-02-14 19:09 ` [9fans] " Russ Cox
2005-02-14 20:31   ` Bruce Ellis
2005-02-14 20:49     ` Russ Cox [this message]
2005-02-14 21:03       ` Skip Tavakkolian
2005-02-15  3:28         ` Andrew Simmons
2005-02-15  3:39           ` Russ Cox
2005-02-15  7:20       ` Tiit Lankots
2005-02-15  9:51       ` David Tolpin

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