Looking for the Perfect Editor

[Wildemar Wildenburger]

Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
> - I was referring to executing arbitrary sections of a Python file in
> a Python interpreter in an "integrated way". When I tried JEdit, I
> think that Jython was the way to go. (And I think this was also the
> case for a while, at least to judge from D. Metrz's review
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-cpyide/
> 
> 
>> The console plugin (probably THE most useful of the pack) gives you a
>> system shell and means to start compilers/interpreters based on your
> 
> But isn't this a "generic console": you go to the console, and then
> type "python2.3" or "python2.4" or whatever? How do you send arbitrary
> selections of Python code from the file you are editing to this shell?
> Is there a way to mark a section of code and have it evaluated by the
> python interpreter? Or a function definition?

Ahh, I see. Well, you're right, that is not that easily possible. But 
you know what? I've never missed such functionality; the "if __name__ 
..." trick always sufficed for me. Buts thats taste of course, lets not 
debate that.
So OK, jEdit is not that 'integrated' after all. Oh well ...

:)
wildemar