[Chicago] Regarding Text Editors

Tue Nov 1 17:32:03 EDT 2016

oh yeah, flame war! Count me in!

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Adam Forsyth <adam at adamforsyth.net> wrote:

> I like the idea of an editor shootout too -- with the caveat that people
> have to talk about Python-specific features.
>
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Jason Wirth <wirth.jason at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We have an ultimate language shootout. I like the idea of an Editor
>> Shootout!
>>
>> I'm not sure if it will erupt into a flame war but there's only one way
>> to find out! :)
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 3:29 PM Jonathan Pietkiewicz <jdanielp at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Let's give everyone beer then talk about vim vs emacs vs X.  What could
>>> go wrong?  :P
>>>
>>> Seriously, it could be informative, especially for people who are only
>>> beginning on a particular IDE.
>>> I'm fascinated by how craftsmen use their tools, so such a meeting could
>>> be very interesting.  Or erupt into a flame war.  Either way, Best Meeting
>>> Ever!
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Jason Wirth <wirth.jason at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Occasionally ChiPy has themed meeting. For example a web dev one and all
>>> the talks are like Django, Flask, requests, etc.
>>>
>>> Anyone interested in an IDE/ editor themed meeting. We could discuss
>>> tips tricks about working with code, or various ways to configure them
>>> (which is often a huge learning curve).
>>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 11:53 AM Chris Foresman <foresmac at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I’ve been using Atom for the last 6 months or so. There are some nice
>>> things about it—and with plugins I have a nearly identical setup to
>>> SublimeText, but I think Sublime 3 has better performance, especially when
>>> having multiple files and/or large files open. That’s a concern for the
>>> project that I typically work on, which has lots of files that are over
>>> 1,000 lines. Atom is sort of “node native”, though, so if you’re
>>> comfortable with JavaScript it’s very easy to hack on, whereas Sublime is
>>> more like “python native”, FWIW.
>>>
>>>
>>> Chris Foresman
>>> foresmac at gmail.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 1, 2016, at 11:27 AM, Adam Cezar Jenkins <emperorcezar at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Anyone use Atom?
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>> -------------------------------------------------
>>> Father, Pythonista, Cyclist, Brewer. Dabbling in Clojure and Functional
>>> Languages
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Chris Sinchok <chris at sinchok.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> If we're talking editors, I'd like to speak up for Visual Studio Code (
>>> https://code.visualstudio.com/). I've been using it instead of Sublime
>>> for the last couple of months, and I really really like it. I suppose I was
>>> just prejudiced against Microsoft products, and that's why I hadn't tried
>>> it out before.
>>>
>>> At least for Python, it's pretty damn good. Basically, it doesn't ship
>>> with any built-in language support, but there's a really good Python
>>> language extension (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=
>>> donjayamanne.python), and after I installed that everything just worked
>>> really smoothly. Copying/pasting from the features list:
>>>
>>>   - Linting (Prospector, Pylint, pycodestyle/Pep8, Flake8, pydocstyle
>>> with config files and plugins)
>>>   - Intellisense (autocompletion)
>>>   - Scientific tools (Jupyter/IPython)
>>>   - Auto indenting
>>>   - Code formatting (autopep8, yapf, with config files)
>>>   - Code refactoring (Rename, Extract Variable, Extract Method, Sort
>>> Imports)
>>>   - Viewing references, code navigation, view signature
>>>   - Excellent debugging support (remote debugging, mutliple threads,
>>> django, flask)
>>>   - Unit testing, including debugging (unittest, pytest, nosetests, with
>>> config files)
>>>   - Execute file or code in a python terminal
>>>   - Local help file (offline documentation)
>>>   - Snippets
>>>
>>> I've found it to work really well, and with a lot less hassle than
>>> Sublime (I was always messing with my Sublime plugins).
>>>
>>>  - Chris
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Aswin kumar <programo.sapien at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Do people in industry use Vim editor or Emacs for software development
>>> in their office or do they use an IDE?  In college my Professors abhor
>>> IDE and suggest us to use VIM or Emacs for development. So I am
>>> curious to know if its is the same case in industry.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Aswin.
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