Is anyone working on a python plugin?

[naiaddd]

The auto-indent works pretty well enough already. Ig I've just grown soft and lazy and accustomed to VSCode and IDLE spoonfeeding me my python-specific auto-indents for functions and loops etc. But it would be nice and seems like it shouldn't be too complicated to extend the python syntax file, has anyone done this already?

[Andriamanitra]

I'm not aware of any Python plugins.

I guess it would be as simple as checking if the file type is Python and previous character is : when a newline is inserted. Is there anything else you would expect from a Python plugin? I might just implement it, like you said it should not be too hard.

[naiaddd]

That's all I can think of

[Andriamanitra]

This is what I came up with:

local buffer = import("micro/buffer")
local util = import("micro/util")

local colonIndentable = {
    python = true,
    yaml = true,
    nim = true,
}

local shouldIndent = false

function runeBeforeCursor(buf)
    local cursor = buf:GetActiveCursor()
    if cursor.Loc.X == 0 then return "\n" end
    local locBefore = buffer.Loc(cursor.Loc.X - 1, cursor.Loc.Y)
    return util.RuneStr(buf:RuneAt(locBefore))
end

function preInsertNewline(bp)
    shouldIndent = colonIndentable[bp.Buf:FileType()] and runeBeforeCursor(bp.Buf) == ":"
end

function onInsertNewline(bp)
    if shouldIndent then bp:IndentLine() end
    shouldIndent = false
end

I also started to implement auto-outdenting when typing eg. "else:", but quickly realized that it would be impossible to handle in a consistent way that is not confusing to users – so I figured it's probably best to leave outdenting to the user.