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Re:The TypeScript compiler is now implemented internally wit... by dotancohen on Thursday November 03, 2022 @02:29AM (#33447754) 

  > why the editor can't treat blocks as entities
That might with with C, but won't work with e.g. Python.
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Re:The TypeScript compiler is now implemented internally wit... by int_19h on Thursday November 03, 2022 @07:01AM (#33449320)
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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