[Doc-SIG] Re: outdent.el (for .py editing in Emacs)

[Randall Hopper]

Ken Manheimer:
 |> That is a really nice aid for Emacs users.  Personally I think this is
 |> worth posting to the main python list! ;-)  And linked off of
 |> http://www.python.org/emacs/, if you're confortable with it.
 |
 |It was on the python.org contrib section, but that's now gone.  I think it
 |was in the python.org emacs section, too, but that seems to be gone - too
 |bad!

No it's still there:

   http://www.python.org/emacs/

However I found it via the search engine, so I don't know whether it's
reachable through links.

FAQ entry 1.19 really needs updated to include:

    Other Emacs goodies for Python (PDB Mode, outdent, etc.) can be found at:

        http://www.python.org/emacs

Randall

 |> Seeing outdent-show-all, I was looking for an 'outdent-hide-all' or
 |> 'outdent-hide-this-level', but didn't find one.  No big deal.  I'll write a
 |> macro for that sometime.
 |
 |Do '^U^C^H' at a top-level topic.  (If you just keep doing a '^C^H' it'll
 |close things until you get to the top level, then a message will tell you
 |to give the repeat count.)

Great.  Referring to the function help on outdent-mode again, I infer that
^U must generally mean "for all"; I didn't pick that up the first time
from the specific outdent-show-all example.


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Randall Hopper
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