[Chicago] [Editor]Python Auto Fill

[Ian Bicking]

Atul Varma wrote:
> I've posted my Python Emacs development module here, with documentation:
> 
>   http://www.toolness.com/pymdev
> 
> Feedback is appreciated.  If anyone's interested (and there's enough
> time), I could also give a quick 5-minute presentation on it at
> tonight's meeting.

Did you see that lightning talk at PyCon that involved clicking and 
stacks on the UI?  It was a little vague, but it reminded me of Oberon, 
and I think of pymdev too -- though using something more Forthish made 
composition a bit easier, I think.

I'd definitely be interested in Pymacs in general, though admittedly 
either people will care about it (because they use Emacs) or it will be 
totally boring and useless.  Lightning talk material?

I feel like if I just understood a little bit of the Pymacs API (and 
hence the Emacs API) I could do most of what I want.  I probably want... 
  mmmm... the filename, current position of the point, ability to change 
the contents (treating it as one big string) and save that content, move 
the point around.  Maybe that's it?  I bet there's a lot of interesting 
things that could happen just using that.  People get really excited 
about TextMate extensions, but I suspect in part because they are really 
easy to write, and Emacs is more intimidating.  (Of course people get 
excited about Emacs extensions too...)


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