tabs do WHAT?

[Tres Seaver]

In article <874sby5m6l.fsf at iname.com>,
David Maslen  <david.maslen at iname.com> wrote:
>I didn't really want to get involved in this thread, but I have one
>comment to make.
>
>Using the python-mode in emacs, getting the code to line up with tabs
>is easy. I press tab, and it puts it in the right place. If it doesn't
>it's because I've forgotten the : after an if statement, or perhaps
>it's because of where a #comment is directly above it.
>
>It is possible to get it wrong, but agian when running python from
>inside emacs, emacs jumps to the line with the exception and it's
>quickly fixed.
>
>However, not everyone uses emacs. As an emacs user I wouldn't wish it
>on you for all it's virtues. I think the python form of indenting
>might be rather annoying if it weren't for the programing tool I
>use. I suspect were I inclined to code with vim, I might get the
>identation wrong, more often than I do now, and that might make me
>complain that {} are a good thing, like quite a few people here have
>been doing :)

Actually, vim's python mode Does the Right Thing about indenting -- I
find it quite pleasant to use (the only problem with it out of the box
is that it insists on yanking comments "#...." back to column 0).
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