newbie q: pythonwin editor

[Neil Hodgson]

> Hi, i have just installed pythonwin(as i plan to do most of my
> programming on windows). I notice that on the interactive screen you
> can change the tab size(e.g. from 8 to 4) and it will automatically add
> tabs for you. However, when i try to create a new python script, the
> text editor that pops out does not add tabs automatically. I couldn't
> found any solution from its help system; does anyone knows how
> to 'toggle' the feature on?

   Turn off the "Use Python smart indentation" option and you will get
dumber but far more reasonable behaviour. This option tries to work out how
to do tabs from the contents of files but can lead to seemingly strange
results.

   Neil