Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!ecngs!feeder2.ecngs.de!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news2.euro.net!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 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:IDLE': 0.04; 'interpreter.': 0.07; 'referring': 0.07; 'python': 0.09; 'editor.': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'solution,': 0.09; 'terry': 0.09; 'applies': 0.15; 'clear.': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'reedy': 0.16; 'simulated': 0.16; 'subject: \n ': 0.16; 'subject:configure': 0.16; 'tabs': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'fix': 0.17; 'alex': 0.17; 'issue,': 0.17; '>>>': 0.18; 'tracker': 0.20; 'thanks.': 0.21; 'posts': 0.23; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'guess': 0.27; 'header:X-Complaints- To:1': 0.28; 'record': 0.28; 'indentation': 0.29; 'maybe': 0.29; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.32; 'not.': 0.32; 'to:addr:python- list': 0.33; 'pm,': 0.35; 'sometimes': 0.35; 'subject:?': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'received:org': 0.36; 'but': 0.36; 'others.': 0.36; "didn't": 0.36; 'editor': 0.37; 'being': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'mark': 0.38; 'some': 0.38; 'several': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'space': 0.39; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'traffic': 0.61; 'subject:there': 0.65; 'hoping': 0.72; 'subject:tabs': 0.84; 'received:89': 0.86 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Is there a way to configure IDLE to use spaces instead of tabs for indenting? Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:20:35 +0100 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-89-240-160-192.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 120824-2, 24/08/2012), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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: 35 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1345900732 news.xs4all.nl 6989 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:47800 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:27873 On 25/08/2012 13:50, Alex wrote: > Terry Reedy wrote: > >> On 8/24/2012 6:33 PM, Alex wrote: >>> Despite being configured to use a 4 space >>> indentation > ... >>> sometimes IDLE's "smart" indentation insists upon using >>> width-8 tabs. >> >> [The 4-space indentation setting] applies to the editor and works in >> the editor for me and others. >> >> [The width-8 tabs are inserted] Only for the simulated interpreter. >> There is a tracker issue about changing that but no consensus. > > Yes, it works in the editor. I was referring to the simulated > interpreter. I guess I didn't make that clear. > > In my search for a solution, I did see some of the traffic regarding > the tracker issue, but the posts were all several years old and I was > hoping maybe there was a fix by now. I guess not. Maybe in Python 4, eh? > > Thanks. > > Alex > For the record issue 7676, yes? -- Cheers. Mark Lawrence.