On Sep 8, 2009, at 4:43 AM, Rohan Nicholls wrote:
I checked out the python-mode launchpad project, and am now sending an email. Do I need to sign up to the python mailing list to see any discussions? Or does this email get me added to some secret list? ;)
While I approved your message, you should explicitly join here http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-mode
I am very interested in getting everything under one roof, although the discussion I read in January seems to indicate that this will never be. Just to sum up reasons that I had started using python.el - python-mode had shown no sign of life for about 5 years
That's changed now.
- The killer was the triple quote bug. I was horribly stung by this, and at that point tossed python-mode even though the integration with ipython.el is hard to beat.
I personally am rarely enough bitten by this to care, but I would love to have someone port python.el's approach to python-mode.el. IIRC, python.el uses regexps and python-mode.el uses the syntax table. The syntax table has the advantage of being much faster, which mattered a lot at one time, but it's not flexibly enough to handle Python's quoting rules.
- I am an emacs user, having given up on xemacs a couple of years ago, and it shows no sign of improving, so emacs specificity is not a problem for me, in fact it is a plus, as the various incompatible bits of the two systems do not start clogging up the code.
python-mode.el works just fine in both Emacs and XEmacs.
So my questions are:- Is the triple quote threat solved in python-mode (because it is in python.el)
I don't believe it has ever been ported over.
- It seems development has started up again, would this be correct, and is there a list of things to fix somewhere? Also has Beverley Eyre compiled that list of features she mentioned back in January?
Yes, it's being actively developed, but my sense of it is that python- mode.el pretty much works well for everyone using it, so I wouldn't say there's a ton of itches that need scratching. We add support for new syntax every time a new Python version comes out. It's probably not as Python 3.x friendly as it should be.
-Barry
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