[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One thing that's kept me from even looking at IDEs is that to the best of my > knowledge none of them will integrate properly with external editors like > Emacs or vi. I know lots of tools support "Emacs-like keybindings", but > believe me, I've never found one that does a decent job of that. There is > just so much more to powerful editors like Emacs or vi than a handful of > cursor movement commands. Once a person is proficient they generally won't > accept substitutes. > > So, please prove me wrong. Are there any IDEs that will actually work with > an external instance of Emacs (either by firing it up or by using a remote > connection program like gnuclient)?
I don't use an IDE when coding on *nix, but I use decent Pythonwin on Windows (never found one of these other monster IDEs fluent/better enough) It detects immediately when a file on disk changed and asks to reload form file or not - any good code editor should do this. The sc1-based editors ones do this usually. Thus one can without worries edit in different editors simultaneously. Also in Pythonwins py-code or .ini settings it would be very easy to implement a 1-liner for a key stroke which opens the current file in an external editor. So that should do it. The same practice should be possible easly with almost any *nix IDE which is written open source in python or lisp ... or has other easy script customization capabs. (But I think there are no decent python IDE's on *nix :-( ) -robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
