Re: python-mode's broken indentation behavior

[Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org>]

On 2015-06-28 21:47 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:

> def foo(x):
>     if x:
>         return 2
>     else:
>         raise Foo
>     for i in range(0, 10)_
> 
> So far, so good.  Now press ‘:’:
> 
> def foo(x):
>     if x:
>         return 2
>     else:
>         raise Foo
>         for i in range(0, 10):_
> 
> Going from:
> 
> def foo(x):
>     if x:
>         x()
>     else:
>         y()
>     for i in range(0, 10)_
> 
> to:
> 
> def foo(x):
>     if x:
>         x()
>     else:
>         y()
>         for i in range(0, 10):_
> 
> is equally unhelpful.

While I completely agree that this behavior is broken in both cases (and
I feel smug using emacs23, which doesn't do this), I thought it's worth
pointing out that these cases are quite different.  In the second case,
it is correct for the code to not unindent automatically, but it should
not restore the indent after you manually fix it.

Maybe you can just turn off the electric colon somehow?  If nothing
else, you should be able to do

(add-hook 'python-mode-hook
  (lambda ()
    (local-unset-key ":")))

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