[Tutor] [OT] Problem with auto-complete package installation in Atom [Was: Re: After virtualenv, how to use ide]

[anand warik]

Thanks for the tip!

On Mon 25 Mar, 2019, 7:56 AM boB Stepp <robertvstepp at gmail.com wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 8:51 PM anand warik <anandwarik at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am sorry for not sticking to my original question but editors are
> complicated in itself. So many costimization instruction to read through
> just to finally execute a simple .Py file which can be just executed using
> the terminal.
> >
> > I am sorry I didn't documented my details about the system, but I
> certainly lost the track through how I installed Anaconda for Spyder and
> then atom. Next time onwards would me more careful.
> >
> > It's true I am not professional programmer and therefore trying to make
> sense of the big picture when learning programming from various sources.
> Picking up pieces from here and there and applying on the system only to
> forget how at all I did it in first place.
> >
> > Sorry for the inconvenience caused, will be careful next time
>
> My intent was not to criticize you, but to help you have the best
> chance of getting help and to briefly share my struggles to settle on
> a coding editor.  There is nothing to be sorry about!  You certainly
> caused me no inconvenience!!
>
> Just because an editor you might use has plenty of customization
> options and be overly packed with features does not usually mean you
> need to concern yourself with them, especially starting out.  As long
> as you can create a text file easily and save it where you want to
> save it, you can use it.  You can always run your program from the
> terminal and many think that is a good idea to do anyway.  Sometimes
> when you run a program from within the editor/IDE it can hide some
> issues from you.  Most editors/IDEs come preset out of the box, so to
> speak, to be able to do sensible syntax highlighting, etc., so you can
> worry about fine tuning these things later when you have time and
> inclination.
>
> As for forgetting things, I am a past master at this!  But I keep
> chugging along and people here are quite patient with me.  But it pays
> to try to focus on the details of what you are doing programming-wise
> as the whole process can and does crash for want of an overlooked
> detail.  Or, in my case, many overlooked details!
>
> Keep trying and always try to give the best, most helpful description
> of problems you are experiencing, what you expected to happen and what
> actually did happen, so that you have the best chance of getting
> useful help.
>
> Take care!
> boB
>