[Tutor] What Editori?

[Ricardo Aráoz]

Lowell Tackett wrote:
> The environment [OS} of choice can do a lot to expand/enhance the
> capabilities of an editor.  I fell upon Vim from the beginning, and
> stayed with it for its' rich palate of features and adaptability (and
> of course, the often...and exhilarating "oh, Vim can do that!").  But
> beyond that, the Linux platform I work within offers its own dimension.
>
> Generally, I will split a [terminal] screen into two (or even 3)
> virtual screens with bash's 'screen' workhorse, and from there I have
> in front of me [perhaps] a; 1) script edit screen, 2) interactive
> screen, and 3) script-launching screen...all on the same physical monitor.
>
> For me, that combination creates an awfully rich & deep working
> canvas.   The whole...is at least as great as the sum of its' parts.
>

LOL
Any modern editor can do that!
In SPE I'm just now working in 7 scripts at a time (a few of them just
for checking stuff) each in it's own tab, a python shell, locals window,
output window, to do window, procedure index, object index, notes
window, directory explorer window, each in its own tab. And on top of
that I can execute a program and debug it through winpdb, test regular
expressions, check code with pyChecker, run in a terminal the current
script with or without arguments, design a GUI with wxGlade or XRC, and
many other actions all a menu choice away.
And nobody would claim this is extraordinary.
Vim has other advantages for an expert user (but you have a steep
learning curve) but what you mention are hardly outstanding issues nowadays.

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