Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-06 Thread Wayne Werner
On Fri, 4 Jan 2013, Roy Smith wrote: In article mailman.105.1357349909.2939.python-l...@python.org, Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au wrote: On 01/04/13 01:34, Anssi Saari wrote: | Just curious since I read the same thing in a programming book recently | (21st century C). So what's the

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-04 Thread Anssi Saari
Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au writes: Hans Mulder han...@xs4all.nl writes: Don't bother: Python comes with a free IDE named IDLE. And any decent Unix-alike (most OSen apart from Windows) comes with its own IDE: the shell, a good text editor (Vim or Emacs being the primary

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-04 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Anssi Saari a...@sci.fi wrote: Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au writes: And any decent Unix-alike (most OSen apart from Windows) comes with its own IDE: the shell, a good text editor (Vim or Emacs being the primary candidates), and a terminal multiplexor

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-04 Thread jrodkeyjr
If you are going to review an IDE, or multiple, I would recommend Komodo and Komodo Edit. On Thursday, December 27, 2012 2:01:16 PM UTC-6, mogul wrote: 'Aloha! I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-04 Thread Tim Chase
On 01/04/13 01:34, Anssi Saari wrote: Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au writes: And any decent Unix-alike (most OSen apart from Windows) comes with its own IDE: the shell, a good text editor (Vim or Emacs being the primary candidates), and a terminal multiplexor (such as ‘tmux’ or GNU

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-04 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 01/04/13 01:34, Anssi Saari wrote: | Just curious since I read the same thing in a programming book recently | (21st century C). So what's the greatness that terminal multiplexors | offer over tabbed terminals? Especially for software development? Do you include tiling terminal emulators? I

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-04 Thread Roy Smith
In article mailman.105.1357349909.2939.python-l...@python.org, Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au wrote: On 01/04/13 01:34, Anssi Saari wrote: | Just curious since I read the same thing in a programming book recently | (21st century C). So what's the greatness that terminal multiplexors | offer

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-03 Thread Gisle Vanem
Wayne Werner wa...@waynewerner.com wrote: Yep. That's how I feel. I had used ViEmu in Visual Studio for coding in .NET at work - but I found that the buffers macros were more powerful. So now I do most of my programming in Vim, and only head to VS if I need autocomplete or some of it's

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-02 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2012-12-30, Jamie Paul Griffin ja...@kode5.net wrote: Stick with what you've been using for the last couple of decades. These tools have stood the test of time for a good reason: they're powerful, efficient and made for the task of programming. There is a good Python plugin for Vim that

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-02 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2012-12-29, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote: emacs will parse that, highlight the filenames and line numbers and if I type M-`, it'll take me to the line of the next error (including opening the file if it's not already open). I assume other smart editors have similar capabilities.

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-02 Thread Matty Sarro
That's really a question for you - do you want the features of an IDE? Aptana includes pydev, and is built on eclipse which is a great swiss-army-knife IDE. If you like KISS, vim is an excellent choice. Go with whichever you are more comfortable using. On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Neil

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-02 Thread Michael Torrie
On 01/01/2013 11:43 AM, Mitya Sirenef wrote: Therefore, deleting 3 WORDs is 3daW (mnemonic: del a WORD 3 times). Interesting. I typically use just d3w. 3daW seems to delete 3 lines for me, the same result as d3enter. Another favorite command is d or c followed by a number and then the right

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-02 Thread Mitya Sirenef
On 01/02/2013 04:33 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: On 01/01/2013 11:43 AM, Mitya Sirenef wrote: Therefore, deleting 3 WORDs is 3daW (mnemonic: del a WORD 3 times). Interesting. I typically use just d3w. 3daW seems to delete 3 lines for me, the same result as d3enter. Another favorite command is

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-02 Thread Wayne Werner
On Wed, 2 Jan 2013, Michael Torrie wrote: On 01/01/2013 11:43 AM, Mitya Sirenef wrote: Therefore, deleting 3 WORDs is 3daW (mnemonic: del a WORD 3 times). Interesting. I typically use just d3w. 3daW seems to delete 3 lines for me, the same result as d3enter. Another favorite command is d

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-02 Thread Wayne Werner
On Tue, 1 Jan 2013, Mitya Sirenef wrote: On 01/01/2013 02:02 PM, Roy Smith wrote: That's true with Vim, as well, especially when I'm making a custom mapping and I can NEVER remember what some combination does, even though if I actually needed to use it, it pops right out, so to find out, I have

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-02 Thread Wayne Werner
On Tue, 1 Jan 2013, Ramchandra Apte wrote: On Friday, 28 December 2012 01:31:16 UTC+5:30, mogul wrote: 'Aloha! I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. Now it's python, and currently mainly

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-02 Thread Mitya Sirenef
On 01/02/2013 10:17 PM, Wayne Werner wrote: On Tue, 1 Jan 2013, Mitya Sirenef wrote: On 01/01/2013 02:02 PM, Roy Smith wrote: That's true with Vim, as well, especially when I'm making a custom mapping and I can NEVER remember what some combination does, even though if I actually needed to use

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 01Jan2013 03:46, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: | On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 14:00:23 -0500, Mitya Sirenef wrote: | [...] For instance, if I need to change | a block inside parens, I type ci) (stands for change inside parens), | while with a regular editor I'd have to

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-01 Thread Tim Chase
On 01/01/13 04:12, Cameron Simpson wrote: I must admit I find Apple's help search box neat this way - you can type a keyword is it will actually find the menu item for you. Not that I use this for vi, of course... If you've not used it, Vim's :helpgrep command provides full Vim regexp power

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-01 Thread Mitya Sirenef
On 12/31/2012 10:46 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 14:00:23 -0500, Mitya Sirenef wrote: I think the general idea is that with editors like Vim you don't get distracted by having to do some kind of an editor task, letting you keep your full attention on the code logic. For

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-01 Thread Roy Smith
In article mailman.1528.1357065822.29569.python-l...@python.org, Mitya Sirenef msire...@lightbird.net wrote: Clunky is the last word I'd use to describe it (ok maybe for Emacs :-) I probably remember about 200 commands, plus or minus, but a lot of them fit into a consistent scheme which makes

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-01 Thread Mitya Sirenef
On 01/01/2013 02:02 PM, Roy Smith wrote: In article mailman.1528.1357065822.29569.python-l...@python.org, Mitya Sirenef msire...@lightbird.net wrote: Clunky is the last word I'd use to describe it (ok maybe for Emacs :-) I probably remember about 200 commands, plus or minus, but a lot of

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-01 Thread jussij
FWIW on the Windows platform the Zeus IDE has support for Python: http://www.zeusedit.com/python.html Zeus does the standard Python syntax highlighting, code completion, smart indenting, class browsing, code folding etc. Zeus also has limited Python debugger support and is fully scriptable

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-01 Thread Ramchandra Apte
On Friday, 28 December 2012 01:31:16 UTC+5:30, mogul wrote: 'Aloha! I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. Do I

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-31 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2012-12-27 at 12:01 -0800, mogul wrote: 'Aloha! I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. Do I really need a real IDE, as the

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-31 Thread Hans Mulder
On 31/12/12 12:57:59, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Thu, 2012-12-27 at 12:01 -0800, mogul wrote: 'Aloha! I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-31 Thread Ben Finney
Hans Mulder han...@xs4all.nl writes: Don't bother: Python comes with a free IDE named IDLE. And any decent Unix-alike (most OSen apart from Windows) comes with its own IDE: the shell, a good text editor (Vim or Emacs being the primary candidates), and a terminal multiplexor (such as ‘tmux’ or

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-31 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Hans Mulder han...@xs4all.nl writes: Don't bother: Python comes with a free IDE named IDLE. And any decent Unix-alike (most OSen apart from Windows) comes with its own IDE: the shell, a good text editor (Vim or

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-31 Thread xDog Walker
On Monday 2012 December 31 14:46, Ben Finney wrote: “I bought some powdered water, but I don't know what to add.” Suggest to Stephen Wright to add hot coffee. -- Yonder nor sorghum stenches shut ladle gulls stopper torque wet strainers. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-31 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 14:00:23 -0500, Mitya Sirenef wrote: I think the general idea is that with editors like Vim you don't get distracted by having to do some kind of an editor task, letting you keep your full attention on the code logic. For instance, if I need to change a block inside

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-31 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 09:30:10 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: Absolutely! Though it's roughly as good to have the current cursor position shown in a status line somewhere, and takes up less real estate. But yes, vital to be able to see that. Even when I'm sitting *right next to* my boss and

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-31 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 09:30:10 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: Absolutely! Though it's roughly as good to have the current cursor position shown in a status line somewhere, and takes up less real estate.

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-30 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
* Yuvraj Sharma aleast...@gmail.com [2012-12-28 01:37:23 -0800]: Use IDLE -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list The OP is already a proficient C, C++, perl, ... hacker using console based tools and hardcore UNIX editors like vi(1) - I doubt he'll stay with IDLE for very

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Monte Milanuk
On 12/27/2012 12:01 PM, mogul wrote: I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. Do I really need a real IDE, as the windows guys around me say I do, or will vim, git, make and other standalone tools

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 4:44 AM, Monte Milanuk memila...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe its because I'm still just a hobbyist when it comes to coding, but I spend far more time 'thinking' about what I'm doing than typing things in... so shaving a few seconds here and there are less important to me.

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-12-27, mogul morten.gulda...@gmail.com wrote: I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. Do I really need a real IDE, as the

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Mitya Sirenef
On 12/29/2012 12:44 PM, Monte Milanuk wrote: Maybe its because I'm still just a hobbyist when it comes to coding, but I spend far more time 'thinking' about what I'm doing than typing things in... so shaving a few seconds here and there are less important to me. I think the general idea is

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Roy Smith
Monte Milanuk memila...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe its because I'm still just a hobbyist when it comes to coding, but I spend far more time 'thinking' about what I'm doing than typing things in... If more professional programmers spent more time thinking and less type typing, the world would be

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Monte Milanuk
On 12/29/2012 11:52 AM, Roy Smith wrote: Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: [regarding Bracket matching Language-sensitive auto-indentation and automatically indents Yeah, what he said, plus syntax coloring. And keyword highlighting. And autocompletion of variable names. I'll probably

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote: Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: [regarding Bracket matching Language-sensitive auto-indentation and automatically indents Yeah, what he said, plus syntax coloring. And keyword highlighting. And autocompletion of

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Roy Smith
In article mailman.1446.1356816523.29569.python-l...@python.org, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: Auto-complete is handy, but not critical. You just wait until your finger joints get to be my age and tell me that auto-complete isn't critical :-) It's extremely handy; not only errors

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Mitya Sirenef
On 12/29/2012 04:52 PM, Roy Smith wrote: In the big for loop, a couple of lines down, no, not there, the other for loop, yeah, now go down a couple of lines, no that's too far, back up one. Yeah there. On that line, why do you ... with: On line 647, why do you ... It's even better when

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote: In article mailman.1446.1356816523.29569.python-l...@python.org, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: It's extremely handy; not only errors from compilation/execution, but things like a 'git grep -n' fit too. Emacs has

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Mitya Sirenef
On 12/29/2012 05:30 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: In the big for loop, a couple of lines down, no, not there, the other for loop, yeah, now go down a couple of lines, no that's too far, back up one. Yeah there. On that line, why do you ... with: On line 647, why do you ... Absolutely! Though

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Mitya Sirenef msire...@lightbird.net wrote: On 12/29/2012 05:30 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: In the big for loop, a couple of lines down, no, not there, the other for loop, yeah, now go down a couple of lines, no that's too far, back up one. Yeah there. On that

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Tim Johnson
* Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid [121229 10:02]: On 2012-12-27, mogul morten.gulda...@gmail.com wrote: I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. Now it's python, and currently mainly on

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Tim Johnson t...@akwebsoft.com wrote: Along the way, I did use emacs as well and ended doing quite a bit of elisping. elispsis. n. the intentional omission of unnecessary work which can be inferred by the editor; often indicated with three consecutive

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-28 Thread Yuvraj Sharma
Use IDLE -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-28 Thread Andrew Berg
On 2012.12.28 00:51, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: The benefit of the tmux client (terminal multiplexer) is that I can see all the screens at the same time and quickly switch between them. I believe Linux has screen(1) which does the same thing. tmux is generally easily available for Linux, and

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Andrew Berg bahamutzero8...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012.12.28 00:51, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: The benefit of the tmux client (terminal multiplexer) is that I can see all the screens at the same time and quickly switch between them. I believe Linux has screen(1)

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-28 Thread Kwpolska
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:01 PM, mogul morten.gulda...@gmail.com wrote: 'Aloha! Hello! I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. You are already awesome, Now it's python, and currently mainly on my

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-28 Thread gst
Le jeudi 27 décembre 2012 21:01:16 UTC+1, mogul a écrit : 'Aloha! holà ! I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. About same than me, though I had not to use/work with perl for new projects,

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-28 Thread python培训
too much ide for python PyCharm PyDev(Eclipse) Pyscripter Sublime Text TextMate UliPad Vim for beginner best choiceidle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-28 Thread Westley Martínez
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:01:16PM -0800, mogul wrote: 'Aloha! I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. Do I really need a real

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Westley Martínez aniko...@gmail.com wrote: I only use vim for everything. IDEs just seem to get in my way. I've just (like ten minutes ago) come across a perfect example of what makes an IDE useful. My mother maintains a collection of documents (book indexes,

New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread mogul
'Aloha! I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. Do I really need a real IDE, as the windows guys around me say I do, or will vim, git,

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread ian douglas
Some would argue that vim is always good enough, especially with its plugin system. I bounce between vim and Sublime Text 2, and recently bought PyCharm went it went on sale a week ago. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. Welcome to the club! Do I really need a real IDE, as the windows guys around me say I do, or

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread peter
On 12/27/2012 05:01 PM, mogul wrote: 'Aloha! I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. Do I really need a real IDE, as the windows guys

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Alister
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:01:16 -0800, mogul wrote: 'Aloha! I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. Do I really need a real IDE, as

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Terry Reedy
On 12/27/2012 3:01 PM, mogul wrote: 'Aloha! I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. Do I really need a real IDE, as the windows guys

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:01:16 -0800, mogul wrote: 'Aloha! I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. Do I really need a real IDE, as

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Tim Chase
On 12/27/12 14:01, mogul wrote: Do I really need a real IDE, as the windows guys around me say I do, or will vim, git, make and other standalone tools make it the next 20 years too for me? Coding Python (and before that C, Pascal, and even some VB in there) using vi/vim has worked for about 10

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Michael Torrie
On 12/27/2012 01:01 PM, mogul wrote: Do I really need a real IDE, as the windows guys around me say I do, or will vim, git, make and other standalone tools make it the next 20 years too for me? I've never ever used an IDE with Python. With Python I can code for an hour in vim and it runs with

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Michael Torrie
On 12/27/2012 02:25 PM, Tim Chase wrote: Alas, one of the worst parts about programming in Python is that I now find it hard to go back to any of the other languages that I know. :-) Amen. I find myself wishing for a python-like language for programming Arduino boards. --

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Modulok
'Aloha! I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. Do I really need a real IDE, as the windows guys around me say I do, or will vim,

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 27Dec2012 12:01, mogul morten.gulda...@gmail.com wrote: | I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained | on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. | | Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. | | Do I really need a real IDE,

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 7:01 AM, mogul morten.gulda...@gmail.com wrote: Do I really need a real IDE, as the windows guys around me say I do, or will vim, git, make and other standalone tools make it the next 20 years too for me? Welcome! No, you don't *need* an IDE. Some people like them

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread TommyVee
mogul wrote in message news:ea058e5c-518f-4210-b80e-49ae2baab...@googlegroups.com... 'Aloha! I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop.

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Roy Smith
In article 50dcf145$0$24782$607ed...@cv.net, TommyVee x...@xx.xxx wrote: Do I really need a real IDE, as the windows guys around me say I do, or will vim, git, make and other standalone tools make it the next 20 years too for me? You'll do fine with vim (or emacs, or whatever).

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:01:16 -0800, mogul wrote: 'Aloha! I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. Do I really need a real IDE, as

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
* mogul morten.gulda...@gmail.com [2012-12-27 12:01:16 -0800]: 'Aloha! I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. Do I really need