[Pythonmac-SIG] Python mode for Alpha editor

[Tom Fetherston]

Andres Corrada wrote:
>Hello,
>    I have been searching the site for a python mode for the Alpha
>editor and was unable to find many of the files that appear listed, for
>example, /ftp/python/contrib/Misc/AlphaPythonMode.sit .  What happened
>to these files?  Is there an up to date version ( works with Alpha v7 )
>of the mode I can download somewhere?
>
With help from some earlier work on an alpha python mode and a bunch of
reworking of the MacPerl mode, I came up with a python mode for alpha. I
then asked for comments and suggestions with the intention of making a more
polished version.

At this point Vince Darley, with the help of the alpha-D mail list,
reorganized and added quite a lot of functionality to Alpha which has
resulted in the 7.0 version that Pete (Alpha's author), has released. there
is a 7.1 version that Vince has on his web site.

At the end of last year I took a bunch of my work on the python mode and
sent it to Vince, I believe he still has it around on his site.

This is not a finished mode however, and  think it was targeted at 7.0,
probably 6.x.

It lacks a good appleEvent interface to python, and a good solution to the
indenting problem Guido pointed out.

The python ide offered some possiblities towards the AE interface, however,
the new version seems to have come up with another way to get python to
interact with python. If I had gotten closer to a finished version, I was
going to ask for some help with this.

The indenting problem is a current issue with alpha, Vince, who has been
the driving force behind alpha's recent evolution, has made all his code
compatible with unix, including unix style indenting, I feel that more
support needs to be added to suport all the styles.

Anyway, I hope to get back to this at some point and offer up another
version, but the new, "work longer for less" economy has kept me away from
alpha at all for a few months.

Tom