On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:13:46AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:00:18AM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > > VIM can do autoindenting for some languages too. Works OK with Perl, > > > and C, and badly with Tcl (but doesn't everything?). > > [snip] > > > > Generally, I am skeptical of autoindenting tools. I usually do it by hand. > > (I don't buy the write-first-indent-later coding philosophy.) Also, my > > indenting style is complex enough to elude tools like 'indent'. I firmly > > believe in doing something right, right from the start. If something isn't > > properly indented when first written, it's broken and must be rewritten. > > Huh? Autoindenting happens while you're coding, not later. That's the > whole point. [snip]
Oh, you meant autoindenting as you type... I thought you were referring to indenting tools. As long as it's unintrusive, I'm OK with that. Unintrusive as in, not anywhere near the atrociousness of MS Word, for example. T -- Being able to learn is a great learning; being able to unlearn is a greater learning.
