[BRLTTY] ***SPAM*** Re: Can BRLTTY indicaste indentation?

[John J. Boyer]

I certainly agree that "Flat is better than nested." However, I am working with an existing code base in Orca and modifications should conform to the existing style.

John

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 10:08:50AM -0400, S. Massy wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 09:00:10AM -0500, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > Consider the following deeply indented Python statement.
> > 					wordType = adverb
> > There are five tabs. I would like BRLTTY to replace them with simicolons
> > ;;;;;wordType = adverb					
> > This feature would have to be optional and easy to turn on and off. People sometimes use spaces to indicate indentation or even both tabs and spaces. I would like spaces replaced with commas. The feature should work only at the beginnings of lines. I've soon code with soo many tabs that the Braille display is blank. 
> > That makes coding really frustrating.
> This isn't exactly what you want, but my solution for this has been to
> shrink tabs from eight to four spaces in vim; that helped loads.
> 
> On a stylistic note, it might also be that the code needs refactoring to
> be more pythonic, as "Flat is better than  nested." is one of the
> language's core philosophies.
> 
> Regards,
> S.M.
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