[wingide-users] Small nit with vi o

[Phil Vandry]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 03:49:05PM -0400, Wingware Support wrote:
> Yes, I believe the original bug report was that o and O didn't match  
> what vi does because we were auto-indenting rather than copying the  
> existing indent on the line you started on.  You can get the  
> auto-indentation (assuming default Tab Key Action preference) by  
> pressing Tab after 'o'.  It's possible this is an area where different  
> vi users will disagree on what we should be doing.

Uh-oh... did I break something by making a suggestion? OK, so this is
subtle and I guess needs more explanation because I didn't want to
suggest defeating/cancelling autoindent.

Consider:

if foo:
    line1
line2

- If I want to add a new line between "if foo" and "line1":

It doesn't matter whether I do this by pressing "o" over "if foo" or
by pressing "O" over "line1". Either way it's clear that the new line
has to be indented the same as "line1".

- If I want to add a new line between "line1" and "line2":

This is not so clear. Am I adding a new line at the end of the "if foo"
block, or am I adding a new line to the top level?

It was my intuition that the IDE's best guess as to which one of these
I mean to do should be based on where my cursor was when I decided to
create the new line. If I was editing "line1" and decided to add a new
line by pressing "o", I probably meant to add a new statement to the
inside of the "if" block after "line1". If I was editing "line2" and
decided to add a new line by pressing "O", I probably meant to add an
extra statement at the top level before "line2".

-Phil