python ides

[Norm Matloff]

I agree with Jeff's comments 100%.

Some years ago I used WingIDE for Java a bit, and I agree that it was
quite nice.  I'll bet the Python version is equally nice.  But I also
recall that, like almost all IDEs, it has a significant startup time,
and has various other kinds of overhead.

And YES, I definitely DO want to use the same text editor (in my case,
vim) in all the work I do, from programming to word processing to e-mail.

In my view, IDEs add little functionality at rather great cost in terms
of time, memory, etc.  It gives a nice visual pleasure, and to those who
didn't come of age during the command-line days, this pleasure is taken
as a given, but I think the IDE concept is vastly overrated.  Making
good use of sophisticated text editor will give you the same programming
benefits without the drawbacks.

But hey, I sometimes surf the Web using Lynx. :-)

Norm Matloff

In article <mailman.3644.1095773039.5135.python-list at python.org>, 
Jeff Epler wrote: 

> That's all very nice, but is it keystroke compatible with vim (including
> the obscure stuff)?  Will it run in a terminal?  Does it meet the DFSG,
> or any other important definition of "free software" or "open source
> software"?  How are the memory footprint and startup time?  Emacs users
> may raise many of the same objections.
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