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Re: Global indent

From "Neil D. Cerutti" <neilc@norwich.edu>
Subject Re: Global indent
Date 2014-08-22 16:16 -0400
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On 8/22/2014 3:54 PM, Rob Gaddi wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 15:46:33 -0400
> Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 14:19:29 -0400, Seymore4Head
>> <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> 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

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Global indent Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-22 14:19 -0400
  Re: Global indent Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-08-22 13:34 -0500
  Re: Global indent "Neil D. Cerutti" <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2014-08-22 14:44 -0400
  Re: Global indent Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-08-22 12:21 -0700
  Re: Global indent Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-22 15:46 -0400
    Re: Global indent Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@technologyhighland.invalid> - 2014-08-22 12:54 -0700
      Re: Global indent Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-08-22 23:11 +0300
        Re: Global indent Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-23 19:08 +1000
          Re: Global indent Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-08-23 12:32 +0300
          Re: Global indent Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2014-08-23 11:41 +0200
            Re: Global indent Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2014-08-23 15:19 +0100
              Re: Global indent Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2014-08-23 18:17 +0200
                Re: Global indent Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2014-08-23 21:57 +0100
                Re: Global indent Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-08-23 14:55 -0700
                Re: Global indent Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2014-08-24 20:24 +0100
            Re: Global indent Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-24 00:56 +1000
              Re: Global indent Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2014-08-23 18:09 +0200
              Re: Global indent Anders Wegge Keller <wegge@wegge.dk> - 2014-08-23 22:43 +0200
                Re: Global indent Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-08-24 01:50 +0300
            Re: Global indent Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-08-23 15:18 -0500
          Re: Global indent Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-08-23 07:49 -0700
          Re: Global indent [levity] Peter Pearson <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2014-08-23 17:17 +0000
      Re: Global indent "Neil D. Cerutti" <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2014-08-22 16:16 -0400
      Re: Global indent Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-08-22 14:14 -0700
        Re: Global indent Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-23 19:31 +1000
          Re: Global indent Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-08-23 15:09 -0500
      Re: Global indent Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-23 18:19 +1000
        Re: Global indent alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-08-23 10:17 +0000
          Re: Global indent Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2014-08-23 10:32 -0400
    Re: Global indent Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-23 06:20 +1000
    Re: Global indent Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-08-22 21:59 +0100
    Re: Global indent mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2014-08-23 12:50 +0100
  Re: Global indent Simon Ward <simon@bleah.co.uk> - 2014-08-22 20:22 +0100
  Re: Global indent Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-23 18:12 +1000
  Re: Global indent Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-23 11:10 -0400

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