[TxMt] First impressions

[Andy Armstrong]

On 29 Jan 2008, at 14:04, Konrad Hinsen wrote:
> Python support is really disappointing. Folding is completely  
> useless (blocks end at the first blank line), tabs are not handled  
> in a reasonable way (using hard tabs with an indentation other than  
> 8 is an invitation for disaster in Python code), leading to  
> indentation errors, and the error output in PyMate is insufficient  
> (I want the full traceback).

TextMate has pretty bad tab support I'd say. The inability to separate  
indent size from tab size and the fact that tab sized chunks of  
whitespace are treated like physical tabs make it unusable for some  
file types / indentation schemes. These days I use vim if I need to  
care about tabs. Which is pretty tragic.

> I looked a bit at the language definitions, and I have the  
> impression that reasonable folding for LaTeX and Python cannot be  
> implemented in TextMate, as the beginning and end of a block must be  
> defined by a regular expression matching a single line. Or did I  
> overlook something?


I don't think you missed anything. If you did, I missed the same  
thing. It makes it impossible to fold pod (Perl embedded  
documentation) too.

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Andy Armstrong, Hexten