On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Michael Langford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many people who go this way, program with or without one just fine. Those who > start right away always using IDE's can just plain die when they hit an > environment where they don't have one (due to time, money, location, or > whatever). > > Btw, if people know of good IDE's other than PIDA that are free, run on > windows and linux and allow use of VIM as the editor, please let me know.
I personally use VIM/vi as my editor. The best thing about using VIM (at least when it comes to testing) is the ability to run command line arguments from vim. :!python hand_grenade.py would run your script (assuming you started editing in whatever directory). Auto complete (the use of <tab> works too. I've never used an IDE aside from the MS Visual Studio for our CS I class - and I find it to be horrible overkill, confusing, and less powerful than vim and g++ from the command line under ubuntu. I suppose my method isn't an IDE, but it works for me (and so far I don't see any reason to change, if I need to edit multiple files at a time I can :split windows, yada yada). Find whatever suits you, and good luck in the hunt -Wayne _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
