Barry Warsaw wrote: > 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.
Hi, checking for the triple-quoted-bug: with python.el, (nth 8 (syntax-ppss)) shows the correct result. Unfortunately with python-mode.el (nth 8 (syntax-ppss)) fails. >From there I assume, setting the syntax-table properly might solve the bug Cheers Andreas 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Python-mode mailing list > Python-mode@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-mode _______________________________________________ Python-mode mailing list Python-mode@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-mode
