Killer Apps???

Tres Seaver tseaver at starbase.neosoft.com
Fri Feb 18 13:08:32 EST 2000


In article <00ae01bf7a0c$ea943180$01646464 at computer>,
Neil Hodgson <neilh at hare.net.au> wrote:
>> It would be immodest of me to mention tabnanny.py, which is likely the
>last
>> word in automated detection of tab/space inconsistencies in worlds with a
>> countable infinity of tab settings.
>
>   I wish this 'last word' quality of tabnanny.py had been made clear
>earlier as I have been attempting to better tabnanny. Hubris, I know, but my
>problem with tabnanny is that people do not use it often enough allowing the
>nanoviruses to consume large amounts of whitespace before being detected.
>
>   To counteract this slackness, I have constructed a tabnanny-like agent
>called TabTimmy that continuously monitors source code and marks bad
>indentation. This feature is available in the current beta version of my
>SciTE demonstration editor.
>http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.zip
>
>   This may even go into PythonWin if I can convince Mark to take it
>seriously.

You should talk to the Vigor guy about adding it behind his paperclip. :)

  (http://www.red-bean.com/~joelh/vigor/ for the Userfriendly-impaired).

Where's-my-shoe-phone?'ly

Tres.
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