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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)
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[ NG list changed: removed shell, added editors; Fup-to set: editors ]

On 28.08.2024 20:48, David Brown wrote:
> On 28/08/2024 19:43, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:34:54 -0000 (UTC)
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>> In Emacs, I have commands defined to adjust the indentation of the
>>> selected region. Surely any other decent editor would offer the same.
>>
>> Writing editor editor macros in order to work around fundamentally bad
>> language design is not something a programmer should have to waste
>> time on.
> 
> I don't know about Emacs, but in most editors the way you indent a block
> of code is to select the lines, then press "Tab".  Unindenting is
> "shift-Tab".  [...]

I also don't know about Emacs. But there's the question how "selected
region" [LD'O] or "select the lines" [DB] is achieved. If there's only
primitive editing commands available (i.e. selection by mouse, or long
clumsy keyboard sequences) it may be irrelevant whether you indent code
in a Python or in a "C" program. If you're using editors like Vi that
block selection can be done with '%' and the indent with '>%' and the
reverse indent with '<%' (without the quotes); but that works only if
you have the syntactical elements (the braces, parenthesis, brackets)
as definition of the program block. That won't work for a block in a
language like Python where blocks are defined by layout (by the grade
of indentation); then you'd have to resort to the primitive editors'
selection features, mouse/menus or more laborious keyboard commands.

Janis