Invisible wrote:
> (Again, I can't comment on Python, but in Haskell you *can* in fact 
> still put multiple statements on a line, or spread one statement over 
> several lines. It's really not stopping you from doing that.)

Python too. I don't think you could put the whole program on one line, 
because I don't think you can dedent except at the end of a line.

> I have never seen any text editor ever that converts spaces to tabs - 

You can ask for it in most editors.

> Becuase no editor in existence can syntax hilight Haskell?

What's the extention for Haskell source files?  Can you post a snippit of 
Haskell here?

> (Besides, Emacs isn't a text editor, it's an operating system! :-P )

Out of curiousity, does elisp run outside of emacs? Can emacs run without a 
window open?  I.e., could you write a web server in elisp?

> That does actually sound quite nice. I've never seen an editor which can 
> actually do that.

Uh, visual studio?

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