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Hi, Hugh

I would actually prefer this sort of indenting (leading "." indicate spaces):

sub f {
....if ($foo) {
........print <<<_EOL_
zero indent
...manually type three spaces
...komodo should continue with same indentation (3 spaces)
_EOL_   # You need to manually delete the white space
........# Komodo automatically bounces back to the indentation at start of here-doc

To sum up, the only white space management you'd need to do
is the first line that starts with three spaces, and the closing
line where there's no white-space.

There's a longish discussion in the Perl cookbook about how to write code
to get around the limitations of auto-indenting that vi and emacs did at
the time, so your heredoc strings would be dedented in code. I prefer to
dedent the heredoc strings in the editor, so you see exactly the whitespace
you'll get. I guess this should be a pref.

This is probably easier to do in Perl and Ruby, where the editor knows about
here-document strings. The PHP colorizer currently only knows they're strings.

Can anyone point me to a reference of "flavored heredocs" in PHP -- this is where
the text in the heredoc tag is supposed to conventionally describe the language
of the heredoc's contents? Something like

echo <<