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> C-like languages like Python I can see Paredit working somehow with the curly brace blocks of C, but how does it handle the significant whitespace of Python?
by tuukkah 4y ago
> C-like languages like Python
I can see Paredit working somehow with the curly brace blocks of C, but how does it handle the significant whitespace of Python? Are indent and dedent handled as tokens?
- Myrmornis 4y agoNo, I've never tried to make it do that. So in Python paredit-kill will not kill a function definition, whereas it would in a language that uses braces for function bodies.
- mickeyp 4y agoI did something far cruder which is also how paredit itself works internally. Redefine the meaning of moving up, down, left or right by syntactic token. In Python up/down is either by block (try, if, etc.) or by s-exp ([], {}, etc.) which Emacs is already capable of doing. By doing that you can effectively teach paredit a little bit about how the language works, as you're moving point around for it. Note that my crude hack was never more than a prototype. Though it did work in more places than it ought to.