Hi Tom: Thank you for replying and giving your input.
Yes indeed. I use version 0.15. I'm always delighted when a new version arrives; but I fully understand why it doesn't happen often. :) P.S. I had never heard of ptpython. Thank you, Noel On Mar 31, 2016 2:13 PM, "Thomas Ballinger" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Without making any commitments or declaring whether these two features are > a good idea, here are a few thoughts: > > * For paging through the pop-up docstrings the biggest thing that comes to > mind is deciding on keybindings > * For vim bindings: this is a larger project but certainly doable. It's > not been on my agenda because there are other projects that have done a > decent job of it (ptpython in particular), and it's sort of a never-ending > effort once you start down the vim path :) I believe Julian has looked at > this a bit as per https://github.com/bpython/bpython/issues/429 > > I'd defer to Sebastian and Andreas for whether these features belong and > interest in the donation-driven approach. > > Noel, to make sure we're on the same page: can I assume you're using the > newest release of bpython, 0.15? > > -Tom > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Noel Milton Vega <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello Friends: >> >> I was talking to Bob by email yesterday, about enhancing bpython. >> I mentioned, in part, this: >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >> I'd happily donate to get paging capability so that we can see the rest >> of the pop-up doc-strings. >> I don't think that capability ever existed (and if it does, I don't know >> how to use it). Would >> adding this functionality be possible? For all the Python IDEs that I've >> tried (WingIDE PRO is my >> favorite), I always fall back to the triple of: >> UNIX screen utility; VIM w/ Python IDE hooks; and bPython. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Bob suggested that I reach out to bpython friends here. >> >> >> *bpython is very useful, and works just about anywhere. I really would >> like to see it evolveto have two additional killer features (for me anyway)* >> : >> >> (1) Paging capability so that we can page through the rest of the pop-up >> doc-strings (as mentioned above). >> >> (2) VIM ex/vi capability for statement recall, edition, search, etc. >> (like what 'sed -o vi' >> does for us in bash). >> >> Maybe this is partly done already. Who knows. =:). >> >> But I'm wondering if there's any interest -- by one of the bpython >> developers -- to implement >> the two items above in a donation-driven effort, which I'm happy to start >> off. >> Or maybe even a tiny kickstarter (although I don't how that works). >> >> Let's bring bpython to v1.0 with the two enhancements above. =:) >> >> Thanks & Warm Regards, >> Noel >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "bpython" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bpython. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "bpython" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/bpython/_dctmI36XHE/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bpython. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bpython" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bpython. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
