Automatic indentation for Python

CutterXYZ

Hello,

Out of curiosity, why isn’t Python code automatically indented in NPP?
For example, hitting enter after the following line should indent the next line:

if a < b:
no indentation here

I’ve noticed a plugin doing just that, apparently available since 2012. Why isn’t this feature implemented natively?

Thanks.

Claudia Frank

@CutterXYZ

because notepad++ isn’t a python only editor.
And the reason for the plugin architecture is exactly for such cases.

Cheers
Claudia

CutterXYZ

Sorry, I don’t know much about language definitions for NPP, but aren’t indentation rules supposed to be part of them?