[Tutor] Python + editor

shey crompton shey@argonaut.com
Thu, 15 Aug 2002 15:52:31 +0100


Hi all,
I realise I may be thrashing a dead thread.... but:

Does anyone use UltraEdit. Some guys at work use it for our in house
language, and find it pretty good to use.
I have toyed around with it a bit and added the python context recognition.
Works a treat.
The only problem I have, and this is where you all come in :-), is that I
cannot get it to run anything in the python shell 


(IDLE). If anyone uses UltraEdit, and has managed to get the 



shell to run a program from UltraEdit, please could you let me know. 



I am thinking something akin to CTRL-F5 in the text editor window with IDLE.


On a different note:

I feel it would be nice if the text editor window with IDLE was a split
window type editor which marked down all the classes and/or functions in a
separate frame. I have seen some editors do this, and double clicking on the
function/class name will take you to the line of the function. 
I feel this would help learners looking through other programs. As a learner
I find it hard to search through line by line within the code for a function
on user input (for example)



. Double clicking in a separate frame to go directly to that point in the
program would _possibly_ speed up my learning (probably not, but anyway...
:-)  )

Who would I send a suggestion like the above to? I am interested on feedback
on both parts of the mail. Feel free to go for it with suggestions, comments
etc. :-)

Thanks,

Shey