[CentralOH] IDE's in general (was Re: Eclipse)

[Eric Lake]

I'm starting to play with Eclipse + Pydev myself. I like using vim for
most things though. Komodo Edit is another good IDE to use.

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:40 AM, William McVey <wam at cisco.com> wrote:
> Just as an FYI, I am a long time (10+ year) vi user. I used to jokingly
>  state that my IDE of choice was a tabbed terminal window (I like mrxvt)
>  and decent shell on a Linux/Unix system. At the most recent PyCon,
>  Wingware gave away free licenses to their WingIDE Pro to individuals who
>  stayed afterward to sprint. I figured I'd take them up on their offer to
>  see how the other side lives. I surprised myself in that I found that I
>  liked their product. It helps in that they have a vi emulation mode that
>  far exceeds the emulation of just about any other tool I've looked at
>  (certainly better than Eclipse's VI emulation). Although not perfect
>  emulation of vi/vim, they have been very responsive in handling my
>  bugs/feature requests.
>
>  I still prefer my interactive python prompt in a terminal window over
>  their python-prompt tool (I have better commandline history and editing
>  capabilities using rlcompleter2). But when it comes to editing a new
>  project, I'm now looking to Wing rather than loading up vi. Among the
>  features I like most about their editor include:
>       * better code completion
>       * visible indents/whitespace (yes, I know vi/vim can do this, but
>         not as nice)
>       * integrated template engine for handling boilerplate code
>
>  I've not yet got into their interactive debugger and haven't used their
>  revision control integration (they support svn, cvs, perforce and I'm
>  doing the git thing) or other advanced functionality, but overall I'm
>  fan. Anyway, with the discussion of Eclipse, I felt like sharing my
>  positive experience with another product in the same space.
>
>   -- William
>
>
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Thanks,

Eric Lake