Indenting in Emacs

[Rustom Mody]

Ive been struggling with this same question -- which python mode --
for a while but not getting anywhere!

I understand (from the emacs list) that the new python mode has better
support for debugging (pdbtrack in addition to pdb) but dont know much
more.


On 6/26/07, John J. Lee <jjl at pobox.com> wrote:
> Michael Hoffman <cam.ac.uk at mh391.invalid> writes:
>
> > John J. Lee wrote:
> >> Eugene Morozov <usenet at eugenemorozov.name> writes:
> >>
> >>> Steven W. Orr пишет:
> >>>  > Ok. I'm not stupid but I do not see a 4.78 anywhere even though I
> >>> see refs
> >>>> from google. I have 4.75 The SVN tree doesn't seem to even have
> >>>> that.
> >>>>
> >>>> I checked the latest copy out from sourceforge and that was 4.75 too.
> >>>>
> >>>> Can someone please tell me where to find the latest?
> >>>>
> >>> It's from Emacs 22.
> >>
> >> Note that's a different python-mode to the old one that lives on SF.
> >> Yes, there are now two of them.
> >
> > Which one is better?
>
> I've not noticed a big difference in usability.
>
> I find indentation with the new mode very mildly more annoying than
> the old mode.  YMMV on that.  There are probably annoyances with the
> old mode that I've now forgotten about.
>
> I'm told by an emacs developer at work that the new mode is more
> emacsy in its implementation -- I don't know in what ways exactly, but
> presumably that, plus the fact that the new mode is included with
> emacs 22, will mean that it's likely to work better with other emacs
> code (not that I ever had much problem with the old mode -- but then I
> didn't push it very far).
>
>
> John
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