alt Hacker NewsIt's 2026. I'm using Jupyter notebooks in Databricks. Guess what my tooling (including my "text editor", the Jupyter notebook), does not do?
Yes, I can castle-[ to shift a block of code left or right, but this is not always problem-free nor is it automatic nor does it have any sense of where the indents should go.
Yes, there is a "format python properly" button which often errors out says "there is an indentation error in your python so I cannot automatically indent it"
Would I like to use better tooling? I present my .vim file as evidence. Am I using what they tell me is state of the art? yes. And in 2026, state of the art does not solve python indenting, because python indenting is inherently a broken paradigm
Does your tooling not allow you to select multiple lines of code and press Tab or Shift-Tab to indent/dedent the entire block?
It usually only takes me a 1-5 seconds to fix the indentation when I copy/paste code that existed at a different indentation level. This is not something I'd complain about, personally.