Great work Joseph!   I tried out both programs on my Windows box and 
offered a couple pull requests on Github.  

There is one intractable problem: SpyderPluginMixins require a dock, and 
autopep8 does not use one.  I was forced to create a dummy dockwidget to 
get the plugin to work.

I propose the following: create a SpyderActionPlugin that only adds 
action(s) to toolbar(s), and does not maintain a widget.

If you check out https://code.google.com/p/spyderlib-jedi/, in the extras 
bookmark, my two latest commits contain the required changes, as well as an 
example autopep8 SpyderActionPlugin.

The relevant file changes were:  
- Add SpyderActionPlugin class to spyderlib/plugins/__init__.py, based on 
the SpyderPluginMixin template.
- Add some guards in spyderlib/spyder.py to handle action-only plugins.

On Thursday, August 15, 2013 6:10:18 PM UTC-5, Lucian Smith wrote:
>
> I am trying to get started on writing a plugin or two for Spyder, and 
> I have a few questions.  First, I see by searching around that others 
> have been interested in a 'hello world' type plugin example for Spyder 
> in the past, but nobody ever seems to actually have a working copy of 
> one.  Do any of you have one you put together?  Barring that, the 
> thing to do seems to be to copy and modify the pylint plugin, which 
> can work, but starts off a bit complicated.  Are there particular 
> modules inside spyderlib/ that would also work as plugin examples, 
> were they to be renamed and moved to the plugin directory? 
>
> Second, for anyone doing plugin development, how do you do your 
> debugging?  So far, I've been editing the plugin from within Spyder 
> itself, then shutting it down and re-launching (from bootstrap.py). 
> This works OK, but when something goes wrong, the diagnostics are 
> minimal, and I lose my undo/redo history.  And I can't run 
> 'bootstrap.py' from another instance of Spyder, since this doesn't 
> seem to do anything (presumably since it sees Spyder is already 
> running).  Do you just launch bootstrap.py from a different IDE 
> altogether?  Any recommendations? 
>
> Finally, I am running into a smallish issue, but due to #2 above, I 
> can't figure out what the problem is.  If I change this line in 
> p_pylint.py: 
>
>         self.register_shortcut(pylint_act, context="Pylint", name="Run 
> analysis", default="F8") 
>
> to: 
>
>         self.register_shortcut(pylint_act, context="Pylint", name="Run 
> analysis", default="Ctrl+F9") 
>
> the shortcut will indeed change to F9.  However, if I try other things 
> like: 
>
>         self.register_shortcut(pylint_act, context="Pylint", name="Run 
> analysis", default="Ctrl+F8") 
>
> And sometimes even changing it to F9 doesn't work, and it keeps the 
> old F8.  Is it caching the value somewhere?  Is there a way I can step 
> through what's going on? 
>
> Thank you! 
>
> -Lucian 
>

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