Global indent

[Neil D. Cerutti]

On 8/22/2014 3:54 PM, Rob Gaddi wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 15:46:33 -0400
> Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head at Hotmail.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 14:19:29 -0400, Seymore4Head
>> <Seymore4Head at Hotmail.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to indent everything again?
>>>
>>> Say I have a while statement with several lines of code and I want to
>>> add a while outside that.  That means indenting everything.  Is there
>>> a global way to do that?
>>
>> Ok.....so the answer is no using IDLE (Python GUI)
>>
>> The top two answers so far are Emacs and gvim.
>>
>> http://gvim.en.softonic.com/  Has a snazzy look, but I think it is not
>> compatible with Windows so it looks like I might have to try Emacs.

gvim runs just fine on Windows. http://www.vim.org/download.php

>> Thanks everyone
>
> Emacs and vim both have huge learning curves that I've decided aren't
> worth climbing.  Notepad++ is an excellent GUI text editor for Windows.
> Geany is nearly as good, and runs on anything.

They do have a very long learning incline but it isn't actually as steep 
as it looks--it's just that it keeps going up as far as you can see.  :)

If simple things weren't simple to do, neither product would have ever 
succeeded.

The GUI version of Vim (gvim), has beginner modes and Windows-like modes 
to help with the transitional phases.

-- 
Neil Cerutti