[Tutor] IDE

[Alan Gauld]

"Michael yaV" <michael at yavarsity.com> wrote 

> Since I'm on a mac, how about using Xcode?

XCode with the PyObjC bridge is OK for Cocoa work but 
as a general purpose IDE is no better than a good editor IMHO.

I still tend to work with 3 windows on the Mac - vim, shell 
and Python interactive. I can cut n paste between them 
and along with all the Unix tools plus bash command history etc 
its just as productive as most IDEs in my experience.

The only thing I do miss in vim over pythonwin is the 
tooltips when entering functions, especially if using 
something like Tkinter with lots of parameters per method.

I've also used Netbeans and Eclipse with Python add-ons 
and both worked in MacOS but on my 600MHz iBook they 
were just too slow!

I keep meaning to try emacs mode. I used to be a heavy 
emacs user but when I moved to a PC I started using vim
and my fingers have lost their emacs habits.

Alan G.