Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Finney a écrit : > > Both Emacs and Vim are highly customisable text editors. They are > > configurable with complete programming languages specific to the > > program, and both have a huge community of programmers writing > > useful extensions. > > FWIW, emacs has > [...] > - ECB (emacs-code-browser), that adds a file explorer and > functions/classes inspector
Thank you very much for making me aware of this amazing tool. I've now been using it for a couple of weeks, and not only does it work smoothly with Python, it works smoothly with loads of other source file formats, such as targets in a Makefile or changelog entries. This is really important, because developing programs is much more than just editing files in one language. A "python IDE" is all well and good, but it's much better to have a solid generic text editor that can be extended by the community. When the editor supports hundreds of common (and less-common) file syntaxes that are associated with programming, the job becomes that much more streamlined. I had become accustomed to this with syntax highlighting, but I'm very pleased to see that ECB has a similarly broad support for organising and browsing the variety of file syntaxes I'm likely to be editing when developing with Python. It also goes without saying that it's great to have all this with *optional* GUI support; it all works just the same when I'm connecting to a text terminal remotely over a slow link. Talk about "huge community of programmers writing useful extensions". Wow. What's the equivalent in the Vim world? -- \ "He who laughs last, thinks slowest." -- Anonymous | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
