special editor support for indentation needed.

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sun Nov 16 12:57:22 EST 2008


In article <mailman.4013.1226696904.3487.python-list at python.org>,
Eric S. Johansson <esj at harvee.org> wrote:
>
>here's an example of the problem:
>class foo( object):
>    def cat(self)
>	self.x=1
>	def dog
>            self.x=2
>
>this is legal Python but it's not what you need 99% of the time.  There is no
>cue to the editor to tell it to outdent to give me what I really want which is:
>
>class foo( object):
>    def cat(self)
>	self.x=1
>    def dog
>        self.x=2
>
>so there should be a mechanism for saying "indent the level of the previous
>definition".  

The command word you want is "dedent".

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