On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 22:55 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Greg Schroeder <gmschroe...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > Please suggest, if we have any free ide for python development. > > > > Anything that writes text is fine. > > I recommend the standard text editor for your OS (Notepad if you use > > Windows, Textedit on Mac, whatever is on your GNU/Linux distro by > > default) unless you know exactly what you don't like about it. > > No. Don't use Notepad for anything! It's easy enough to get a better > editor. Among its other faults, Notepad: > > 1) Has problems with LF line endings (they vanish, and you have hugely > long lines) > 2) Puts three junk bytes onto the beginning of a file that it > considers saved as UTF-8 > 3) Doesn't understand coding cookies, and will happily save something > in a different encoding like CP-1252 (which it calls "ANSI") > 4) Guesses encodings on load, giving rise to the famous "Bush hid the > facts" trick - although this is unlikely to be a problem with > something of decent size > 5) Has issues with large files - or at least, it did last time I > tried; this may no longer be true with Windows 7/8 > > Default text editors on the Linux distros I've used have been far > better, but still less than ideal. With Debian Squeeze, I got a gedit > that bugged me in several ways, which is what pushed me onto SciTE. > You can certainly start coding with gedit, though. The issues that I > had with it were relating to heavy-duty usage that I do, where I'm > basically spending an entire day delving into code and moving stuff > around. These days, though, I'd rather have one editor on both the > platforms I use (Windows and Linux, each in multiple variants), as it > allows me to share configs and comfortable keystrokes. There are > plenty of cross-platform editors to choose from. > > So, I agree with your analysis, as regards gedit ("know exactly what > you don't like about it"). If it doesn't bug you, use it. But if > Notepad doesn't bug you, *still don't use it*, because it's like > driving a car that isn't structurally sound. It might not be you that > gets hurt by it... or it might not be for quite a while that you see > the problems... but the pain will happen. > > ChrisA Well, learn something new every day. Any gripes against vim with some tweaks? Greg
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