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Fernando Pérez fperez528 at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 14 14:05:16 EST 2002 
bboman at research.panasonic.com wrote:

> I could go into a long explanation as to why block delimiters are
> useful but I will just say that when you cut and paste a block of code
> from one nested block loop into another block at a different
> indentation level it is much nicer and much less error prone to just
> tell emacs to re-indent the entire function than to manually adjust
> each line.

And it's even nicer (and safer) to highlight the pasted block and put it 
_exactly_ at the indentation level where it should be with C-> and C-<. 
That's why python-mode has those two critical keystrokes, they are vital for 
reorganizing safely the logic of large pieces of code. Far better than 
relying on a keyword-based indentation guess. You do it, and you tell the 
editor exactly where the code should go.

Cheers,

f.
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