Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)

On 29.08.2024 14:30, David Brown wrote:

On 29/08/2024 09:28, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:

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Then don't use vim - use an editor that suits your needs.

LOL. (You appear to be joking. - If not, continue reading...)

But what makes you think that his needs are not covered by Vim?

 
If you are trying to claim that you do software development, and that
the editor(s) you use regularly do not have easily available functions
for indenting and un-indenting sections of code, then you are either
lying, or you /are/ an aforementioned special kind of genius.

Vim is an editor that has the most simple and also very powerful
indenting for well structured data and programs I've yet seen.
(Not mentioning its equally powerful other editing facilities.)

And even badly designed languages can be indented in the same
ways that other editors (more primitive ones or Emacs) provide.
Not as efficient as with previously mentioned cleanly designed
data or languages, but as efficient as all these other editors.

Why should he use any editor that is - in the general case, for
editing all sorts of data - mostly much less efficient than Vim?
(From the handful of popular editors I don't see any candidate.)

But this is not an untypical reflex on the Internet; ignoring
factual design issues, questioning the used tools instead, and
giving folks with different experiences and preferences names.

Janis