[Tutor] free IDE for Python?

[Tim Johnson]

* William O'Higgins Witteman <hmm at woolgathering.cx> [061114 09:05]:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 12:28:02PM -0500, Richard Querin wrote:
> >   On 11/14/06, Tim Johnson <[1]tim at johnsons-web.com> wrote:
> >
> >       I've used vim in the past for python and recommend it for ease of
> >       use and support. I also use emacs, which may be found harder to
> >
> >   I have to chuckle when you recommend Vim for ease of use. Now don't start
> >   flaming me quite yet. I'm a big fan of Vim and I'm in the midst of
> >   learning it myself. I think it's a very powerful editor and I like it a
> >   lot. But recommending it for ease of use might be a little stretch. It's
> >   like a lot of things, the higher learning curve ultimately gets you
> >   greater rewards.
> 
> Using vim is like riding a bicycle - it's hard to learn, but once you
> get it, it becomes automatic and can make you intolerant of walking (...
> everything ... is taking ... so ... long ...) :-)

   I went from Boxer on windows - nice editor, CUA-style - to vim.
   Getting used the vim 'modal style' seemed exotic, but not 'arcane'.
   Once I got past that, I found vim incredibly nimble.
 
   I found emacs harder to learn than vim. I find that they both
   have their place. 
   
   BTW: vim offers 'hooks' to compile the python editor directly into
   the editor. That's a feature that portends many possibilities.

   tim

> yours,
> 
> William
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