Hi,
I have a python script on a unix system that runs fine. I have a python
script on a windows system that runs fine. Both use tabs to indent
sections of the code. I now want to run them on the same system,
actually in the same script by combining bits and pieces. But whatever
I try my windows tabs get converted to spaces when I transfer it to the
unix system and the interpreter complains that the indentation style is
not consistent throughout the file. Short of going through 350 lines of
code and manually replacing spaces with tabs what an I do? I'm thinking
there surely must be a simple solution I have missed here!
Cheers,
Ben
Dec 27 '06
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In message <ro************ *************** *****@4ax.com>, Tom Plunket wrote:
Perhaps interestingly, for development I have my editor set to show tabs
as fairly short, but my diff program shows them as eight characters. I
find that makes indentation changes easier to spot in the diffs.
I think there should be a single environment variable, perhaps
called "TABS", which specifies the tab settings across all relevant tools
that work with text, including less and diff. So for example setting this
as
export TABS=4
will cause these tools to treat tabs as equivalent to stepping to the next
multiple of four columns from the start of the line.
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
I think there should be a single environment variable, perhaps
called "TABS", which specifies the tab settings across all relevant tools
that work with text, including less and diff. So for example setting this
as
export TABS=4
will cause these tools to treat tabs as equivalent to stepping to the next
multiple of four columns from the start of the line.
Maybe I'm also weird, but I use a variable-pitch font when programming
in Python. So a "tab equals some number of spaces" really isn't useful
to me. My setup is, "tab equals this much space".
-tom!
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On 1/1/07, Tom Plunket <to***@fancy.or gwrote:
Maybe I'm also weird, but I use a variable-pitch font when programming
in Python. So a "tab equals some number of spaces" really isn't useful
to me. My setup is, "tab equals this much space".
A year ago I would have thought you were weird, but after reading a
post by Ed Leafe, one of the creators of Dabo about using proportional
fonts for readability, I thought I'd try it out, thinking that it was
pretty wacky. Turns out that after a very brief adjustment period, I
liked it! I've been using proportional fonts ever since, and have
found only one drawback: code that is indented with spaces looks
butt-ugly. I'm glad I switched to tabs for my code.
--
# p.d.
On 2007-01-02, Peter Decker <py******@gmail .comwrote:
On 1/1/07, Tom Plunket <to***@fancy.or gwrote:
>Maybe I'm also weird, but I use a variable-pitch font when
programming in Python. So a "tab equals some number of
spaces" really isn't useful to me. My setup is, "tab equals
this much space".
A year ago I would have thought you were weird, but after
reading a post by Ed Leafe, one of the creators of Dabo about
using proportional fonts for readability, I thought I'd try it
out, thinking that it was pretty wacky. Turns out that after a
very brief adjustment period, I liked it! I've been using
proportional fonts ever since, and have found only one
drawback: code that is indented with spaces looks butt-ugly.
I'm glad I switched to tabs for my code.
I first came accross it in Stroustrup's _The C++ Programming
Language_. I liked the look and the idea immediately, but my
editor of choice (by historical accident) Vim, doesn't yet
support it.
--
Neil Cerutti
I've had a wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. --Groucho Marx
Peter Decker wrote:
Maybe I'm also weird, but I use a variable-pitch font when programming
in Python. So a "tab equals some number of spaces" really isn't useful
to me. My setup is, "tab equals this much space".
A year ago I would have thought you were weird, but after reading a
post by Ed Leafe, one of the creators of Dabo about using proportional
fonts for readability, I thought I'd try it out, thinking that it was
pretty wacky. Turns out that after a very brief adjustment period, I
liked it!
Yep, I had a similar experience although a bit more forced. The editor
that I was using was configured out-of-the-box with variable-pitch, and
I didn't want to bother figuring out how to change it for the quickie
stuff I was writing, then eventually I found that it no longer bothered
me...
-tom!
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Tim Roberts wrote:
"Ben" <Be************ *@gmail.comwrot e:
>Great - that worked.Thanks!
Is that a general method in linux you can always use to redirect
standard output to a file?
Works in Windows, too.
For some value of "work" :)
regards
Steve
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