Help! Indenting craziness!

Adam Clark bjrubble at shell16.ba.best.com
Fri Jul 7 20:15:13 EDT 2000


Ack!

Okay, here's the part where I apologize for my bandwidth-wasting ignorance.
I found the problem -- a space-indented line about 20 lines up from the
flagged line, easily identified by cursoring through it.

Paint me red and call me a luser...



Aahz Maruch <aahz at netcom.com> wrote:
> In article <8k5pev$182l$1 at nntp1.ba.best.com>,
> Adam Clark  <bjrubble at shell16.ba.best.com> wrote:
>>
>>Does anybody have a technique for avoiding syntax errors due to blank,
>>unindented lines?  I'm getting these on a regular basis, and I haven't
>>figured out any reliable way to fix them.  Sometimes if I take every line
>>in the vicinity, backspace it to the end of the previous line, and 
>>reposition it, the errors go away.  But often they don't, and I end up
>>just deleting chunks and rewriting them until Python stops complaining.
>>
>>This is with Emacs and python-mode.

> That doesn't make any sense.  This sounds like what can happen if you
> switch between Windoze and Unix.  Can you give us an example?
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