[Tutor] Notepad++ question

[Jonathan Bishop]

Hi, as a Python beginner myself, I started out using Geany IDE. It was
pretty cool editor but it caused me indentation hell! Since then I have
moved to eclipse with the pydev plugin and found it much friendlier when
dealing with indentation problems. But each to there own! Notepad!! is a
sweet editor, I wish there was a linux version but I can't recommend
Eclipse enough for beginners.

Regards,
Jon.

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Marc Tompkins <marc.tompkins at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>wrote:
>
>> This is almost certainly down to mixing tabs and spaces.
>> You can mix them in a file but not within a block. (And
>> even then I would recommend sticking to just one style)
>> Some editors make it worse by autoindenting with a mixture
>> of tabs and spaces which is fine for C or Java but no
>> good for Python... I don't know Notepad++ so can't comment
>> on it.
>>
>>
> In Notepad++, select Settings/Preferences.
> There's a tab called "Language Menu/Tab Settings" (they've put the two
> things on one tab to save space; the tab settings are on the right side.)
> You'll find a setting for "Tab size"; the default is 4 - and also a
> checkbox for "Replace by space", which is NOT checked by default.  If
> you're going to be writing Python in Notepad++, you should _definitely_
> check that box.
> Click "Close", and off you go!
>
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