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		dotancohen on Nov 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PR that converts the TypeScript repo from namespac... `> why the editor can't treat blocks as entities` That might with with C, but won't work with e.g. Python.

int_19h on Nov 3, 2022 [–]

Python has syntactic blocks as well, and editors totally can (and do) muck around with their formatting. I don't see any reason why they couldn't handle customizable indentation.

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