"Howey," == Howey, David A <d.howey@imperial.ac.uk> writes:
Howey,> I'm a bit annoyed at having to give up the 'integrated' Howey,> environment of IDLE and use ipython, although I concede Howey,> that ipython is quite nice. In particular I now need an Howey,> editor. Can anyone help? Unlike you I prefer emacs but Howey,> haven't yet found an easy win32 binary (any idea where I Howey,> can get it? I would rather not mess with cygwin Howey,> etc). Also, it's a bit heavyweight. You can get binary versions of gnu emacs at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/ eg http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/emacs-21.3-fullbin-i386.tar.gz No cygwin required. I usually untar it in Program Files and then create a shortcut to bin/runemacs on my desktop. I use them it all the time on win32; after putty and winscp it's the first thing I install on a new windows box. Only thing that keeps me sane in windows land... If you already like emacs, emacs + ipython are a great combination that work well together. You can, for example, configure ipython and emacs so that from ipython you can do In [3]: pwd Out[3]: '/home/jdhunter' In [4]: edit test.py and have test.py appear in a emacs buffer in the running emacs session. Never tried this on windows, though. Also,
ipython -pylab
mode has special support for maptlotlib pylab mode, and will automagically handle gui threading, etc... JDH