[Pythonmac-SIG] Re[2]: BBEdit questions

Louis M. Pecora pecora@anvil.nrl.navy.mil
Wed, 1 May 2002 13:03:57 -0400


> >>I'm in the process of evaluating BBEdit as a Python editor...
>>>
>>>I would like to change the default colors being used for syntax
>>>coloring but can't find the dialog. Does that have to be changed
>>>manually in a file on disk and if so where?
>
> > I don't know of any way to do this.
>

Look under Preferences (Edit menu)/ Text Colors

You can set colors to whatever you want.

> >>Worse, it doesn't know that the tabs expanded to four spaces, so
>>>when you have to backspace, so you have to backspace once for each
>>>space. That is sort of annoying, any workarounds besides always
> >>using tabs instead of spaces?

Just use Tabs and set BBEdit tabs to 4 spaces or whatever you want.

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Cheers,

Lou Pecora