On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 02:52:03AM -0700, Steve Freitas wrote: > Can you guys(/girls?) recommend your favorite (preferably *nix-based) Python > editor to me? I've tried...
I saw a demonstration of PyCrust last week. It's not and editor but an interactive Python shell with word completion context-sensitive help about the current function, and two side panels that are an object tree and object browser. I haven't used it yet but it looks quite interesting. If it had an editor, it would make a great IDE. The stable version is bundled with wxPython; the development version is at ttp://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/ I use vim for editing, mainly because of the syntax highlighting and because I'm used to the keystrokes. Pressing "/" + word + enter is so much faster and more convenient than pressing ctrl-F (or alt-F or ctrl-shift-F?) and waiting for the Find dialog to appear, and likewise for number + "G" instead of ctrl-L to go to a line. > Emacs: Its inability to handle triple-quoted blocks properly ruins the > syntax highlighting, and that's that. Vim's syntax highlighting is worse. It does well with ordinary triple- quoted strings, but as soon as it sees an apostrophe it switches modes. Sometimes I put a comment like this after the string: # ' <-- This line is here to fix vim s syntax highliging. nedit has the best syntax highligting IMO. It can switch fonts as well as colors, so it uses italic for comments. nedit also has quite sophisicated block operations: you can drag rectangular chunks around with the mouse to copy or move them, and the surrounding text moves around to accomodate it line by line while you're moving. Sometimes I use nedit for a change, but it doesn't allow you to embed indentation rules into the document like vim does, which means new lines have different indentation than existing lines and Python chokes. Vim allows you to put a comment like: # vim: shiftwidth=4 tabstop=4 expandtab in the document. Emacs does this too but with a different syntax. I wish the editors would agree on a common syntax for this. > It sure indents well, though. Indentation is the biggest reason I don't use emacs. It tries to be so smart that it won't let you override its opinion of where the line should start. But sometimes I want to put an extra indent in continuation lines in my comments, and emacs refuses to allow it. -- -Mike (Iron) Orr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (if mail problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://iron.cx/ English * Esperanto * Russkiy * Deutsch * Espan~ol ------------------------------------------------------- Bringing you mounds of caffeinated joy >>> http://thinkgeek.com/sf <<< _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
