[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Python Editor for Mac

[David Eppstein]

In article <A448AF1E-146A-11D8-B0F4-000A956FDAC0 at fonnesbeck.org>,
 Christopher Fonnesbeck <chris at fonnesbeck.org> wrote:

> I also use SubEthaEdit for python (and FORTRAN) coding, and enjoy it 
> very much. I was hoping to use Xcode, but it does a poor job of even 
> simple things like remembering my python code is to be indented 4 
> spaces, while my FORTRAN code needs 6 spaces. Very poor indenting, and 
> no python debugging, which makes its use as an IDE pointless. So far 
> emacs is the only OSX editor that I've seen that integrates pdb for 
> debugging.

I have to admit, after trying SubEthaEdit for maybe 1 minute, that it 
looks pretty nice for Python.  Knows out of the box that I want 4 
spaces, doesn't put in tabs instead of spaces, and the delete key 
dedents 4 spaces instead of just getting rid of one of the spaces.  
Syntax coloring is a little subtle but I can live with that.  The "Show 
Changes" feature looks very useful.

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David Eppstein                      http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science