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Pythonwin: editor nits

Dan Underwood danunder at columbus.rr.com
Sat Jun 17 09:42:36 EDT 2000 
Mark,
Thanks, turning off Smart Tabs makes it do what I want... 
rather obvious now that I know it!
I find Pythonwin to be an excellent piece of work!
Dan.

Mark Hammond wrote:
> 
> Check out the documentation in the Pythonwin help file about the tabs (in
> the overviews section).  If you can't find it, then update your build!
> 
> Basically, "Smart Tabs" is designed to work the way you are seeing it
> work - it uses the first indent in the source file to set the options for
> the file.  If you want your options to be in effect _always_, turn
> smart-tabs off.
> 
> This is identical to the way IDLE works - we share the same auto-indent
> code (courtesy of the timbot)
> 
> Mark.
> 
> "Dan Underwood" <danunder at columbus.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:39439B04.76F15F39 at columbus.rr.com...
> > I'm using build 129 on Win98SE. I find that the editor does not
> > (usually) remember my tab and indent settings. Nor does it remember that
> > I set "Use Tabs" on and "Show Whitespace" on. Actually, the options
> > dialog shows these settings as remembered but the editor seems to ignore
> > them for existing files. I do not want to deal with questions about why
> > I change tab and indent ;-) but I would like to know if I am just not
> > setting something right or are these just some bugs to be eventually
> > fixed. If a later build has already fixed them, "never mind".
> > Thanks.
> > Dan.
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