Everyone has different requirements, but I'm one of those strange people who don't care about having a powerful editor. I don't want completion, or auto-anything. Just something that gets out of my way and lets me work. If something complex needs to be done on occasion, that's what the shell and associated command tools are good for. I also prefer an editor that doesn't suck up a gig of ram like most of the java based editors/IDEs seem to. My search for a simple editor with basic project support ended up with a relatively new gtksourceview2 based editor called Codeslayer: Starts in around a second, and uses a whopping 20m of ram:
http://code.google.com/p/codeslayer/ with a django language-spec: http://code.google.com/p/gedit-django-template-language/ and a decent theme, and additional language-spec for python: http://mystilleef.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-dark-minimalist-theme-for.html Which ends up looking like this: http://tinyurl.com/43v8dcf Gedit with plugins is similar, but a bit heavier - I also had a lot of trouble with the filebrowser/project manager working over sshfs at reasonable speed. Another lightweight alternative is PIDA with emacs or VIM as the editor base. If you can handle the learning curve, which I don't care to: http://pida.co.uk/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
