In article <mailman.1446.1356816523.29569.python-l...@python.org>, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Auto-complete is handy, but not critical. You just wait until your finger joints get to be my age and tell me that auto-complete isn't critical :-) > It's extremely handy; not only errors from > compilation/execution, but things like a 'git grep -n' fit too. Emacs has integrations with many version control systems. Over the years, I've gone back and forth over whether I do my version control from within emacs or at the command line. These days (with mercurial), I tend to do most vc-things at the command line. But, I'm addicted to C-x v = (hg diff). It diffs the current buffer against the last checked-in version of the file, and can take me directly to any particular changed line. Again, I would imagine any decent editor these days would have something similar. It just blows my mind when I see people editing program text with NotePad or some similar piece of crap. Oh, yeah, one other thing I forgot. You want to use an editor which can (preferably as something you can turn on and off easily) put line numbers down the left margin of the screen. For solo editing, it's kind of silly. But if you're doing any kind of pair programming, code review, or presentation to a group, it's invaluable. Compare and contrast: "In the big for loop, a couple of lines down, no, not there, the other for loop, yeah, now go down a couple of lines, no that's too far, back up one. Yeah there. On that line, why do you ..." with: "On line 647, why do you ..." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
