Re: [Trisquel-users] Developing free software

[andrew]

BTW I started coding for this set of things using Eclipse and its PyDev and  
Mercurial plugins a few years ago.  Eclipse kept causing the JVM itself to  
SEGFAULT mid-debugging session and I kept losing work - so I switched to  
GNU/Emacs for my editor and turned on what it calls Version Control which  
creates a new numbered ~ (backup) file for each save.  Then of course the  
various VCSes aren't entirely bug free and occasioanlly you have to fix a  
repo. So I switch to git because the repo control data is editable 'ASCII'  
with zlib defalate copies of the files which are much eaier to fix by hand.