[Pythonmac-SIG] IDE that doesn't look awful?

[Christopher Barker]

Christopher Barker wrote:
> Joe Strout wrote:
>> FYI, I've been most impressed so far with Editra.
> 
> I'll need to take a look again and see why I rejected it in favor of 
> Peppy -- I honestly don't remember.

OK, I've taken a look again:

First, it really is nicely put together, polished and packaged well 
(particularly on the Mac) -- it even offered to download an updated 
version for me -- very nice.

Here are my issues, relating to the list I sent earlier about Peppy:

It does support multiple top-level windows, and but I can't seem to view 
the same file in two different Windows -- that is really a nice feature. 
  I can open the same file in two windows, but the editor seems to treat 
them as independent -- when I make a change i one, it doesn't show up in 
the other, though when I save it, the other triggers a "the fie has 
changed on disk, do you want me to re-load it" dialog.

I can't figure out how working with different types of files work - 
-when I open a python file, it is doing python-specific things, but how 
do I set that? I see the Settings->Lexers menu, but type-specific 
behavior goes beyond syntax highlighting. Also, I loaded a *.txt file, 
and somehow got fortran lexing -- that's a bit odd. Switching to 
plain-text fixed that.

Here is my thing about modes -- I see under Preferences->Document->Code 
that I can set things like Code folding,  Auto-completion, etc. However, 
what if I want those to be different for different languages? That 
doesn't appear to be supported. How about using tabs to indent one 
language, and spaces another?

And spell checking -- that would be nice. I think Rob implemented it in 
such a way for Peppy that it could be plugged in to any wxSTC-based editor.

one other issue: I get an almost constant stream of:

Oct 22 10:56:54 christopher-barkers-power-mac-g5 
/Applications/Editra.app/Contents/MacOS/Editra: CGContextRestoreGState: 
invalid context

errors in Console -- this happens with Peppy too, so it's probably a 
wxSTC error, but I thought you should know.

I suppose I should really move this to the pyXide list.

-Chris



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