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Subject: Re: Linux (x server) stability From: Nick Moffitt <nick@zork.net> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:02:50 -0800 begin J C Lawrence quotation: > Ahem. Are you suggesting that cut'n'pasted code which breaks the > indentation pattern of the target source is acceptable? Really? Actually, I think it's an amusing vilification of cut-and-paste programming. Still, I wanted to write a child class that had one method changed slightly for my own use. I pasted in the parent's method, and then had to change all the spaces to tabs. GAR! > <blech> Of course Emacs handles all this quite elegantly, with two > key strokes redenting the block appropriately... Yeah, I think there's actually a pyindent in vim as well. === Subject: Re: Linux (x server) stability From: Markus Gutschke <markus@gutschke.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:02:34 -800 > > Goddamn, talk about a language that's hostile to cutting and > > pasting! > > That's what Shift-Control-9 and 0 are for dude! I can offer C-M-\ and C-r-k or C-r-t ;-) Markus === Subject: Re: Linux (x server) stability From: J C Lawrence <claw@cp.net> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 18:04:19 -0800 On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:02:50 -0800 Nick Moffitt <nick@zork.net> wrote: > begin J C Lawrence quotation: > Still, I wanted to write a child class that had one method > changed slightly for my own use. I pasted in the parent's method, > and then had to change all the spaces to tabs. Aye, TABs are evil. I don't tolerate them in my files -- XEmacs is specifically set to translate them to spaces for everything except makefiles. > GAR! Quite. ===