Re: python-mode's broken indentation behavior

[Jude DaShiell]

I've used python-mode and what I had to learn and I don't know if this 
is nailing you was once an indent was arranged, when a new line is typed 
only hit tab once.  The python-mode for me then indented all code 
correctly.  If I examined the spacing of the indent and tried hitting 
tab more than once (second guessing python_mode) that's when I got 
myself into trouble.  If this is nailing you, I hope this helps.

On Sun, 28 Jun 2015, Florian Weimer wrote:

> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 15:47:03
> From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Subject: python-mode's broken indentation behavior
>
> Indentation in python-mode has been fairly broken for me, I believe
> since Emacs 24.  The electric colon makes this especially annoying.
>
> In the following, _ marks the position of point.
>
> If I press RET here:
>
> def foo(x):
>    if x:
>        return 2
>    else:
>        raise Foo_
>
> I get this, which is correct.
>
> def foo(x):
>    if x:
>        return 2
>    else:
>        raise Foo
>    _
>
> Continuing typing:
>
> def foo(x):
>    if x:
>        return 2
>    else:
>        raise Foo
>    for i in range(0, 10)_
>
> So far, so good.  Now press ?:?:
>
> def foo(x):
>    if x:
>        return 2
>    else:
>        raise Foo
>        for i in range(0, 10):_
>
> Going from:
>
> def foo(x):
>    if x:
>        x()
>    else:
>        y()
>    for i in range(0, 10)_
>
> to:
>
> def foo(x):
>    if x:
>        x()
>    else:
>        y()
>        for i in range(0, 10):_
>
> is equally unhelpful.
>
> For me, this makes editing Python scripts with Emacs a fairly painful
> experience.
>
> Surely this is a known issue because it has been around for so long.
> Is this the behavior the python-mode maintainers prefer?  I find this
> hard to believe.

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