John> python-mode actually handles Python syntax a lot better than John> haskell-mode handles Haskell syntax, particularly regarding John> indentation. Automatic indentation is only one aspect of Emacs modes, and as far as I am concerned not nearly the most important one. Here's a quick test: put the cursor in front of a triple-quoted string, then hit Control-Alt-F (forward-sexp). It should move just after the whole string. Does it? Any tool which assumes strings are delimited by a single front delimiter and a single end delimiter, which they are in most reasonable languages, will have trouble. -- She had a passion for anyone who could do anything really well. ... "Not for an engineer, not for a technician!" Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master & Margarita