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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)
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 04:30:16 +0200
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On 29.08.2024 03:22, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 02:29:55 +0200, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> I have Emacs commands defined to jump quickly between lines with matching 
> indentation. That lets me easily select entire statement blocks in Python.

I'm sure you have. - But wasn't that the point someone made upthread:
"Writing editor editor macros in order to work around fundamentally bad
language design is not something a programmer should have to waste time
on." [Muttley@...] - I'm just feeling lucky with brackets and Vi. YMMV.

Janis