Dick Moores wrote: > At 06:30 PM 9/10/2006, Kent Johnson wrote: >> Dick Moores wrote: >>> Also, why do you use TextPad instead of IDLE? >> You're kidding, right? > > No. Tell me, please. Macros? Comparing files? What else?
OK...please, no one interpret this as IDLE bashing or attempt to show me a better way. I'm happy with TextPad and just writing this because I was asked... In my opinion: - Most of my Python work is actually in Jython. I can run a Jython program with a tool in TP. Actually I have separate tools for each active project that set the correct working directory and invoke a batch file with the right jars. Can't do that in IDLE. - TextPad is a good general-purpose editor, not just for Python. All the following reasons really come under this heading. I have an editor I like, it works great for Python, there is really no reason to use IDLE. - Fast and powerful multi-file search (easily specify the directory and file types to search) - Syntax highlighting for XML, HTML, Velocity templates, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, R, SQL, CSS...all file types I use more or less frequently. - Word wrap - Show invisibles - Customizable with macros and external tools - Open as binary etc... Kent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
