On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Andrew Brookins <[email protected]> wrote:
>> but I couldn't see how to do that in a language-specific way -- i.e I
>> definatly want that in Python ,but may not in other modes.
>
> This is in Preferences -> "Settings - More" -> "Syntax Specific - User" on OS 
> X.

ah, fount it -- thanks. It's bit tricky as that's blank to begin with,
but easy to copy and paste from the main preferences.

Getting there with this.

>> I also note that it used different key bindings on different platforms
>> -- darn! that's a pain, one of things I look for in an editor is that
>> it works the same everywhere (and works everywhere)
>
> This one of the nice things about Vim and Emacs. Of course, some
> people complain about the archaic shortcuts and want the program to
> reflect the OS better.

yup -- the main reason I dumped (x)emacs a while back -- I want at
least basic stuff like cut and paste to be platform-standard.

The thing is, sublime text seems to have gratuitous differences --
i.e. for the most part, ctrl+something on Windows is cmd_something in
the Mac -- i.e cut, paste, etc. but they have alt_something on windows
mapped to shift_something in the Mac -- huh?

I'll need to look into re-mapping the bindings, that can probably be done.

> Recently I tried PyCharm 2 and found it had improved a lot from
> version 1. It can't match the fluidity of editing with a stripped-down
> Vim or ST 2 install (ie not a bunch of plugins), but the refactoring,
> code intelligence and testing integration is much better than what you
> find even with a sandwich of plugins in those editors.

worth a good look -- I was impressed by those guys at PyCon -- they
really seemed to be working hard on making it work well for Python --
and some folks have worked on Cython integration for it too.

However, I really want to use the same editor fro everyting I edit --
one of the great strengths of (X)emacs -- it had really good modes for
virtually everything. Not sure how PyCharm does for non-python files
(plain text, LaTex, C, C++, html, CSS ....) What's with having
different products for each language?

-Chris




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