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0 pointsmattdeboard11y ago0 comments

Doesn't matter, it works now. This isn't a moral question about which project has had the fewest bugs in their respective lifetimes. It's a practical question about which mode gets auto-indentation right right now.

edit: I don't know the answer to your question. What I do know is that it's really hard to get indentation right in Emacs for languages with significant whitespace where new lines are the only marker, and I assume the same is true for TextMate (which Atom piggybacks on for indentation). I'm not an expert on emacs, emacs lisp or creating language modes for emacs, but I do have a decent amount of experience[1]. So when I say I'm sympathetic I mean it down in my bones.

But still, if an editor can't get auto-indentation right, it's a deal-breaker.

[1] https://github.com/elixir-lang/emacs-elixir/blob/master/elix...

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chc11y ago· 1 in thread

Oh, I didn't mean it as a moral question or smack-talk or anything like that. I was just noticing that Python seems to be neglected by a lot of editors. I'm normally an Emacs user, but I gave up on it for Python because I had to spend too much time fighting it on indentation, so I was kind of surprised to see it mentioned in your comment and it made me think.

mattdeboardOP11y ago

No, python-mode works beautifully for me. There are a couple very minor hiccups (I think there's some error with indentation after a method with no `return` statement or some such) but it's not a deal breaker.

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