[omaha] Python Editors (was :Upcoming Meeting Topic ?)

Matthew Nuzum newz at bearfruit.org
Tue Nov 10 17:43:51 CET 2009


On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Mike Hostetler <mike at hostetlerhome.com> wrote:
> You mean there is something besides Emacs? j/k
>

I have never found an editor that works good at anything out of the
box. They always need tweaking. And the teaks that make an editor good
for one task don't always work best for other tasks.

Since what I do tends to be so varied in recent times I've found that
an IDE doesn't fit. If I were just doing Java or just PHP or just
Python then maybe I would switch back to an IDE again.

I've found the three editors I use the most are vim (for console),
gedit (when I'm in Ubuntu) and textwrangler (when I'm in Mac OS). They
need only minor tweaking to be useful for a variety of tasks.

I have wished I had a django aware code environment so that when
coding I didn't have to drop to a terminal to launch the dev server or
run django command line commands. I've also wished for a good debugger
that integrated right into my editor. PHP is just now getting this
kind of stuff working nicely which means we may have to wait another 5
years before it's working right for Django.

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