The cheap option is open Vi -> :shell -> bpython On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 9:43 AM, fisadev <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.orgdomains. > > > > 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]<bpython%[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]<bpython%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/bpython?hl=en. > > -- 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.
