Suggestion: Cycle Indentation after Final Indentation Block

[Wes Kyle]

Hi all,

I've been trying to get away from Emacs and I really like IEP but one thing I suggest is that if TAB is pressed while the cursor is in the deepest indentation block, the cursor moves back to the first indentation block. Emacs does this and it definitely speeds up writing by saving me from backspacing all the time. Instead, I can just use TAB to cycle through the available blocks. It would be great to implement this in IEP.

Any thoughts on this?

Regards,

Wes

[Almar Klein]

If I understand correctly, if I have this (best viewed in monospace):

class Foo:
def bar(self):
a = 1
|

With my cursor being the bar below "a", if I now press Tab, I'd go back
to zero indentation instead of indenting that line? If it is, then there
would be no way to indent code more than syntactically makes sense,
which means that the IDE must be very aware of the maximum sensible
indentation of each line. And it can only work in Python.

I suppose it's possible, though I wonder if its not too "magical". What
if I like to indent my code first and then write a function def at the top?

- Almar

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[Eelke Spaak]

And relatedly, what if you want to continue a statement on the next
line? The indentation on that second line depends a lot on personal
preference I think, some people want to have it start almost all the
way near the right margin, others will just want a single extra tab.

Eelke

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