On Nov 24, 4:09 pm, rustom <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Nov 24, 8:13 pm, Richard Riley <rileyrg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Gerhard Häring <g...@ghaering.de> writes: > > > Rhodri James wrote: > > >> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:20:27 -0000, NiklasRTZ <nikla...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >>> Dear experts, > > >>> Since no py IDE I found has easy hg access. IDEs PIDA and Eric claim > > >>> Mercurial support not found i.e. buttons to clone, commit and push to > > >>> repositories to define dev env dvcs, editor and deployment all in 1. > > > >> I don't really understand this urge to cram everything into a single > > >> program, since that inevitably leads to compromises that will > > >> compromise > > > Huh? Cram what? Nothing is crammed into anything. The IDE/Editor is > > merely programmed to hook into the external tools > > > >> just how much of Mercurial's useful and interesting functionality you > > >> can get at. Still, if you really must, Emacs (and presumably vim) seems > > >> to be capable of working with most source control systems. > > > > I prefer the commandline tools, too. > > > > FWIW, Eclipse supports Mercurial through > > >http://www.vectrace.com/mercurialeclipse/ > > > > -- Gerhard > > > Why would you prefer the command line tools in a shell when the same > > tools can be used in a way which makes navigating the output so much > > easier? It strikes me as a kind of intransigence. it's a common > > misconception that IDEs use their own tools all the time. They > > don't. They integrate the very same tools. e.g Why the hell would I drop > > to a command line to diff a file with a back version in GIT when I can > > do the same in the buffer in emacs with a single hot key? Why would I > > pipe the output of compile into a file then open that file when a single > > hot key can fire off the SAME compiler and then list the errors in an > > emacs buffer and another hot key can take me directly to the source > > lines in question? Living in the past has its mements, but really. > > > e.g I have pylint working live in python buffers. Big time > > saver. Similar with C. > > I sometimes think that the amount of time I spend tweaking emacs to > save my time is more than the time I spend on anything else :-) > > But more seriously: > I tried to use emacs with git recently -- it was a sorry experience. > The git.el that comes with git is broken (on windows) > vc was too old for git like systems > dvc is a joke (its supposedly generic for all Distributed Version > Systems -- but everything is couched in terms of tla. > TLA! For heavens sake! > magit would not run on windows and to use egghttp://github.com/bogolisk/egg > I must read magit docs. > Finally I decided to stay with what Ive used for the last 25 years -- > the shell
git is easier via commandline than hg. hg wants gears for simple thing ie. hg commit -m wants spec note, too long to type each commit. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
