Hi all, coming across a site which complains the way and state of Emacs python-mode developing
http://synker.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/emacs-as-a-python-ide/ let me take the occassion to address some issues of maybe general interest. Certainly python-mode at it's present state has it's limits and can be done much better. OTOH if you consider other editors, they have shortcomings too, albeit in maybe different areas. So while it can be done better, the result seems is not so bad at all in comparison. Complaining the multitute of offerings, which requires some choice, is a common mistake. Freedom means choice and provokes it. With resp. to the mentioned so called "apparent bitterness" and it's outcoming, please compare the capabilities of python-modes with others, with Bash or Perl for example. Without question we can be more polite and nice with each other. But don't let you make that fear a strive or even criminalise disput. We know that creativity often is linked to a kind of unhappy behavior. We should simply accept that and go on, enjoing the fruit even from adorned crowns :) BTW writing a python-mode IMHO meets some extra difficulties due to Pythons use of indent as delimiter - what's nice to look and use introduces some complexity OTOH. So after all, consider python-modes rather a story of success than a failure. IMHO we should go on, maybe still more outspokenly welcome diversity than it's common now. For me it's a pleasure to look into alternative proceedings delivered by others. It's a source of inspiration, of joy. Andreas _______________________________________________ Python-mode mailing list Python-mode@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-mode
