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From: Muttley@dastardlyhq.com
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Subject: Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 07:27:40 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 15 Sep 2024 21:47:13 +0200
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> boringly babbled:
>On 14/09/2024 09:59, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
>> On 29.08.2024 21:36, David Brown wrote:
>>> On 29/08/2024 18:44, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
>>>> On 29.08.2024 14:30, David Brown wrote:
>>>>> On 29/08/2024 09:28, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>> Then don't use vim - use an editor that suits your needs.
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> But what makes you think that his needs are not covered by Vim?
>>>
>>> You seem to have missed the point - sorry if I was not clear.
>>>
>>> He complained that he didn't want to learn complicated macros in Vim
>>> just to be able to indent or un-indent lines of code.  The solution is
>>> obvious - he should use an editor other than Vim.
>> 
>> This is not what I'd call a solution. I'd call it elusion; and in both
>> senses - if he didn't use his editor for that space-indenting because
>> he doesn't know how to do it he could look that up, but it is not any
>> issue to do that, only more laborious than indenting brace structures,
>> and the suggestion to switch to another tool is also elusive because
>> it doesn't address the issue (he would still have to learn how to do
>> it in any other tool). - But that was not the point.
>> 
>
>This thread died out two weeks ago, and should have been left there.

To be fair it should have been left in the 1990s.