[Tutor] Re: [Edu-sig] RE: [Idle-dev] IDLE's save-before-run requirement

[Patrick K. O'Brien]

I agree with that sentiment. While I also use Boa, PythonWin and VPython, I
still like IDLE and usually pop it up for interactive use. What I really
want is the best of them all. I hate to see all these efforts recreating the
wheel. Of course, Boa and PythonWin both use Scintilla, although in slightly
different fashions. It might be nice if everyone standardized on Scintilla
for the core editing capabilities and spent the rest of their effort on
value-added stuff. (Though it wouldn't surprise me if Guido was reluctant to
go with that suggestion and I can't say I blame him.) I think everyone would
benefit if there was more code sharing and/or standard modules for the
standard features that any editor/IDE would have to have. And it would be
nice if these were GUI independent so that we could go from Tkinter to
wxWindows, for example, if we wanted to.

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Patrick K. O'Brien
Orbtech
"I am, therefore I think."

-----Original Message-----
From: edu-sig-admin@python.org [mailto:edu-sig-admin@python.org]On Behalf Of
Israel Evans
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 1:16 PM
To: 'Guido van Rossum'; Kirby Urner
Cc: pobrien@orbtech.com; idle-dev@python.org; Python Edu SIG; Python Tutor
Subject: RE: [Tutor] Re: [Edu-sig] RE: [Idle-dev] IDLE's save-before-run
requirement

I'd just like to say that I love IDLE.  It's the only thing I do Python in.
It's also the First tool that has made me comfortable with an interactive
interpreter.  Emacs just frightens me! Vim is Spooky! IDLE is just right!

~Israel~