Michiel Sikma wrote: > By FOS, do you mean FOSS (Free and Open Source Software)? I've never > seen the acronym FOS used.
Maybe he was trying for "Free Open Source IDE" without the semi-redundant "Software" > I personally use Eclipse with PyDev. > http://www.eclipse.org/ > http://pydev.sourceforge.net/ Eclipse+PyDev has the advantage over emacs when it comes to big projects, IMO. It has features like refactoring, better project management, code coverage. emacs has the advantage of being faster and smaller, and if all you need is a syntax-aware (smart indentation, syntax highlighting) editor and integrated debugger, emacs is more than enough. I've tried the other free IDEs like IDLE, SPE, eric3, TruStudio (for Eclipse), Boa, Komodo, WingIDE. I have various issues with them, including instability, poor automatic indentation, bad GUI (too many subwindows or uncustomizable), costly, no refactoring, and no project management. It's strangely ironic. I consider Eclipse to be a lousy Java IDE especially compared to commercial offerings and yet that's what the project started out as. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
