Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'beginner': 0.05; 'that?': 0.05; '(python': 0.07; 'see.': 0.07; 'modes': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'runs': 0.10; 'gui': 0.12; 'url:download': 0.12; 'windows': 0.15; 'indent': 0.16; 'phases.': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'steep': 0.16; 'do,': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; '>>>': 0.22; 'aug': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; "aren't": 0.24; 'fine': 0.24; 'looks': 0.24; "i've": 0.25; 'nearly': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In- Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'statement': 0.30; 'code': 0.31; 'lines': 0.31; 'that.': 0.31; 'compatible': 0.32; 'text': 0.33; 'everyone': 0.33; 'fri,': 0.33; 'editor': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'add': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'version': 0.36; 'idle': 0.36; 'thanks': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'two': 0.37; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'simple': 0.61; 'decided': 0.64; 'worth': 0.66; 'anything.': 0.68; 'again?': 0.84; 'everything.': 0.84; 'url:php': 0.85; 'good,': 0.91; 'subject:Global': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: "Neil D. Cerutti" Subject: Re: Global indent Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:16:32 -0400 References: <20140822125414.1fe9eb5c@rg.highlandtechnology.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: jackman.norwich.edu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: <20140822125414.1fe9eb5c@rg.highlandtechnology.com> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 40 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1408738616 news.xs4all.nl 2911 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:46550 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:76820 On 8/22/2014 3:54 PM, Rob Gaddi wrote: > On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 15:46:33 -0400 > Seymore4Head wrote: > >> On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 14:19:29 -0400, Seymore4Head >> wrote: >> >>> Is there a way to indent everything again? >>> >>> Say I have a while statement with several lines of code and I want to >>> add a while outside that. That means indenting everything. Is there >>> a global way to do that? >> >> Ok.....so the answer is no using IDLE (Python GUI) >> >> The top two answers so far are Emacs and gvim. >> >> http://gvim.en.softonic.com/ Has a snazzy look, but I think it is not >> compatible with Windows so it looks like I might have to try Emacs. gvim runs just fine on Windows. http://www.vim.org/download.php >> Thanks everyone > > Emacs and vim both have huge learning curves that I've decided aren't > worth climbing. Notepad++ is an excellent GUI text editor for Windows. > Geany is nearly as good, and runs on anything. They do have a very long learning incline but it isn't actually as steep as it looks--it's just that it keeps going up as far as you can see. :) If simple things weren't simple to do, neither product would have ever succeeded. The GUI version of Vim (gvim), has beginner modes and Windows-like modes to help with the transitional phases. -- Neil Cerutti