how do you move to a new line in your text editor?

[Bill Scherer]

John Salerno wrote:

> This is a real small point, but I'd like to hear what others do in this
> case. It's more an 'administrative' type question than Python code
> question, but it still involves a bit of syntax.
>
> One thing I like to do is use tabs for my indentation, because this
> makes it easy to outdent when I need to start a new line in column 1. I
> can press backspace once and move 4 spaces to the left.
>
> But I read in the PEP that spaces are recommended over tabs. If this is
> the case, it would involve pressing backspace 4 times (or 8, etc.) to
> get back to column 1.
>
> So I'm wondering, how do you all handle moving around in your code in
> cases like this? Is there some sort of consistency to these things that
> you can write rules for your text editor to know when to outdent? It
> doesn't seem like you can do this reliably, though.
>
We usually handle this by using an editor that "knows" Python. There are 
many.
See http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEditors

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