Can someone recommend an open-source editor for all 3 platforms? M
On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 21:37 Ben Finney, <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > > > Short of [the heavyweights Vim and Emacs], I'd still recommend a > > community-owned, free-software, highly flexible programmer's editor. > > If you're on GNU+Linux, use the Kate or GEdit editors; they integrate > > very nicely with the default desktop environment and are > > well-maintained broadly applicable text editors. GEdit in particular > > has good Python support. > > In particular, when teaching students, please steer them away from > proprietary software, regardless of price. > > Non-free software such as Sublime Text, PyCharms, Wing IDE, and the > like, sometimes have a zero-dollar license, but your students should not > be encouraged to use tools they are forbidden to learn about and share. > > In education, please use free-software tools – that is, software with > license to inspect, modify, and share the changes – so your students can > learn at any level their interest takes them. > > -- > \ “What I resent is that the range of your vision should be the | > `\ limit of my action.” —Henry James | > _o__) | > Ben Finney > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor