XPost: comp.unix.programmer, comp.lang.misc   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 02:29:55 +0200, Janis Papanagnou wrote:   
      
   > If there's only   
   > primitive editing commands available (i.e. selection by mouse, or long   
   > clumsy keyboard sequences) it may be irrelevant whether you indent code   
   > in a Python or in a "C" program. If you're using editors like Vi that   
   > block selection can be done with '%' and the indent with '>%' and the   
   > reverse indent with '<%' (without the quotes); but that works only if   
   > you have the syntactical elements (the braces, parenthesis, brackets) as   
   > definition of the program block. That won't work for a block in a   
   > language like Python where blocks are defined by layout (by the grade of   
   > indentation); then you'd have to resort to the primitive editors'   
   > selection features, mouse/menus or more laborious keyboard commands.   
      
   I have Emacs commands defined to jump quickly between lines with matching   
   indentation. That lets me easily select entire statement blocks in Python.   
      
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