python-mode.el

Backspace deletes spaces not tabs

Asked by Noah

I know it's called backspace, but I'd like it to remove a full tab if I'm at the end of a line with only whitespace. I'm having trouble getting the `py-electric-backspace` command to execute when I hit backspace at the end of a line of only spaces in python-mode. When I hit backspace it deletes individual spaces, not 4 at a time as it should be.

What confuses me is that if I do `M-x py-electric-backspace`, it performs the command correctly and tells me I could have invoked the command by using backspace:

    You can run the command `py-electric-backspace' with <backspace>

I'm using python-mode.el version 6.0.10, and I've tried reducing my .emacs file to only the few lines required to load python-mode.el. I'm running the terminal in MacOS X 10.6.8, with emacs 24.1.1.

I'd like backspace to work properly in python-mode, but I don't even know where to start figuring out what's wrong. Any help would be appreciated.

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Andreas Roehler (a-roehler) said : 		#1

Am 20.07.2012 00:11, schrieb Noah:
> Question #203672 on python-mode.el changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/python-mode/+question/203672
>
> Description changed to:
> I know it's called backspace, but I'd like it to remove a full tab if
> I'm at the end of a line with only whitespace. I'm having trouble
> getting the `py-electric-backspace` command to execute when I hit
> backspace at the end of a line of only spaces in python-mode. When I hit
> backspace it deletes individual spaces, not 4 at a time as it should be.
>
> What confuses me is that if I do `M-x py-electric-backspace`, it
> performs the command correctly and tells me I could have invoked the
> command by using backspace:
>
> You can run the command `py-electric-backspace' with <backspace>
>
> I'm using python-mode.el version 6.0.10, and I've tried reducing my
> .emacs file to only the few lines required to load python-mode.el. I'm
> running the terminal in MacOS X 10.6.8, with emacs 24.1.1.
>
> I'd like backspace to work properly in python-mode, but I don't even
> know where to start figuring out what's wrong. Any help would be
> appreciated.
>

please file a bug-report and link this question to it

thanks

Andreas

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