[Tutor] most useful ide

[Oscar Benjamin]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 10:30:59AM +0000, Ian D wrote:
> Thanks for all the responses
>  
> I was mainly looking for a more user friendly ide in a windows environment
> with things like command completion etc. Like something a novice might use.
> I suppose vi is simple and available for windows  but I don't suppose there
> would be command completion even in vim.

Vim supports all kinds of different completion:

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/vim-you-complete-me

I've also used jedi. I used it some time ago when it was new and a bit buggy.
It started to annoy me after a while so I disabled it but it might be better
now:

http://jedi.jedidjah.ch/en/latest/

See also:

http://sontek.net/blog/detail/turning-vim-into-a-modern-python-ide

Vim has a steep learning curve but in my experience if you can get past the
initial fight then it's definitely worth it.

Another advantage of Vim for me is that it tends to be installed on all of the
remote machines that I use so that I can transparently run it over ssh in the
terminal. Similarly on Linux I can use it from the virtual terminals which is
very handy when you've screwed your computer!


Oscar