On Nov 30, 2007 3:14 PM, kam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on a python user list they recommend Vim, Emacs and Komodo > > Anyone here have a preference? >
We've had this discussion at several PySIG meetings, and come out with different, all interesting, results. You want to learn enough vim and emacs to get by, at least, because you can use it as a simple text editor over a 56k connection when all you can get is a secure shell connection into a remote machine. Like we all knew Control-K, Q back in the day ;) I like SciTE: it's a simple enough editor with color-context stuff and the ability to write rudimentary macros to do things like check-in and check-out. But it often requires manual installation on some platforms. Light, quick and functional. The far end of the scale are the GUI IDEs like Komodo or Eclipse. I'm using Eclipse on a development effort and it has everything including the kitchen sink, which has good aspects and downsides. I can control, start, stop and restart the web server from within the interface, view the web site in an embedded browser (firefox and/or IE on windows), check things in and out of source code control, diff against the scc repository, get prompted for completion of JavaScript, HTML, python, ruby or whatever, have references to the language of choice, sync my database with the repository model, and probably floss my teeth, too. It's a swiss army knife, it's a soda pop, it's a floor polish. It doesn't have a kitchen sink, it has several in different colors, materials and finishes. It's enormous. It's the team standard and it works okay. On the Mac, there's also TextMate, which has the simlicity of a text editor and the extensibility of something like Brief. Very cool. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/dabo-users/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
