[urlwolf]

Hi,

For python, mixing tabs and spaces is bad.
So most python coders use the ‘tabs to spaces’ option.
However, that makes it very inconvenient to delete indetation.

Vim solves the problem with ‘smarttabs’:

“‘smarttab’ ‘sta’ boolean (default off)
global
{not in Vi}
When on, a in front of a line inserts blanks according to
‘shiftwidth’. ‘tabstop’ or ‘softtabstop’ is used in other places. A
will delete a ‘shiftwidth’ worth of space at the start of the
line.”

Can we have this?

Thanks

[zhouzh2]

Hi,
Emeditor has “tabs to spaces” function.
just for fun, I write a macro for a smart del feature:

//SmartTab4python by zhouzh2

	document.selection.CharLeft(true,1);

	document.selection.CharLeft(true,1);

	document.selection.CharLeft(true,1);

	document.selection.CharLeft(true,1);

	if (document.selection.Text == "    ")

	{

		document.selection.Delete(1);

	}

	else 

	{

		document.selection.CharRight(false,1);

		document.selection.DeleteLeft(1);

	}

	

	

assign “backspace” to this macro in Python configuration will do what you want.
note this macro works only when a tab means 4 spaces. If not, you can change this macro accordingly.
P.S. It works a little slow, so i think a plug-in should be a better choose.

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