Comment 5 for bug 837065

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Andreas Roehler (a-roehler) wrote : Re: [Bug 837065] Re: py-electric-colon indents incorrect and leaves point at the wrong place

Am 30.08.2011 22:26, schrieb Barry Warsaw:
> On Aug 30, 2011, at 06:22 PM, Andreas Roehler wrote:
>
>> may implement any rule...
>>
>> what about:
>>
>> indent to previous defs indent?
>
> Let's step back a second and consider Georg's comment #2. py-electric-colon
> was disabled by default because it never really did a good job of
> indentation. As you observe, there are many times when it cannot really know
> what you want. If electric colon causes more pain than gain, is it worth
> adding the keybinding by default?
>
> Andreas, what situations do you find electric colon helping you with?
>
> I can't remember when it was disabled, but it seems like I've been using
> python-mode for ages without electric colon and not missing it much. ;)
>
> What do you think about going back to disabling the keybinding by default?

think that's the best solution.
Will make a variable for that, so should someone want to have it, might
be enabled.

> The command will still be there of course, for users to bind it if they want.
>
> Maybe even conduct a query on python-mode@ mailing list to see who uses
> it?
>