Hello everybody, I'm new here. Talking about Vim, when I saw bpython my first thought was "OMG, I need this inside Vim, not omnicomplete". Is that possible?
On Feb 16, 8:24 am, Bob Farrell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, thanks everyone for the feedback here - I'd be interested to hear what > Andreas has to say about this too. > > So, instead of replying to you all individually, I'm just going to give my > general thoughts on what the mails have led me to. > > Basically, I'm a lot more interested in this than I was yesterday. Simon > mentioned the block editing feature which I agree would be a really great > thing > to have. I think this depends at least partly on Marien's work on the urwid > front-end. If we can get rid of curses then implementing this should be a > whole > lot easier, so maybe a GSoC programmer could do some general house-keeping; > helping with getting half-finished ideas completed and also take on tasks such > as block editing. > > So, I'll take a look at the application form today and see what I think. > > If anyone has any suggestions for features, now is a good time to mention > them. > > Re: the poster who mentioned bpython evolving into an IDE, well, personally > I'm > not too sure about this. It would take a hell of a lot to convince me to stop > usingvimas my text editor and personally I just don't see the point in trying > to create text-editing features in bpython when there are already such > powerful > text editors around. > > But, I do think bpython being a part of another IDE would be great for a lot > of > people. I forget the name of the project, but there is an IDE that embeds > existing tools such asvimand essentially outsources its components. The gtk > port of bpython would allow bpython to be used with this project. > > Also the suggestion we had yesterday of having a socket server run inside > bpython that can run code sent to it from e.g.vimis a great idea - Marien is > doing some work with Twisted and bpython that would make this trivial to > implement, so we would have slime-like (http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/) > functionality. > > So there are definitely plenty of things we can do to improve bpython and I > don't want to be the one who ruins the party by not applying to GSoC if it > means we could end up having a better tool for everyone. > > I'll post back here with my progress. > > Thanks also to those who have said nice words about the project; it's always a > pleasure to hear that others find my work useful. > > Thanks, > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 05:02:08AM +0530, Shashwat Anand wrote: > > <snip> > > > > I would also like to respond to the publicity issue raised by Anand. I am > > > the maintainer of both the bpaste.net and bpython-interpreter.org domains. > > > bpython-interpreter.org has had 13 000 visitors and 2 500 downloads of the > > > archive file hosted on the website. For the current month we average about > > > 350 visitors daily. A search on Twitter reveals a lot of people chattering > > > about and we get picked up on quite a few weblogs. Now, I am not saying > > > there is no room for improvement but I am saying that we do not need GSoC > > > for publicity. If Bob decides we could try to participate it should be > > > for a > > > chunk of development power and not for a chunk of publicity. > > > Thanks for stating the statistics of which I was unaware of. It did cleared > > a lot of issues. I agree upon the fact that if bpython decided to > > participate it should be for chunk of development power and not for > > publicity. But I still believe that assessing the pros and cons by > > participating once, bpython can decide upon future participation. > > > Regards, > > ~Shashwat Anand (l0nwlf) > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "bpython" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/bpython?hl=en. > > -- > Bob Farrell -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bpython" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bpython?hl=en.
