On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Rhodri James <rho...@wildebst.org.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 28 May 2014 14:04:55 +0100, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > >> My IDE is to have three GUI windows open: >> >> * A web browser for searching the Internet. Any browser will do, but I >> prefer Firefox. >> >> * A tabbed editor. I prefer kate (KDE 3 version, not KDE 4), but geany is >> also good. At a pinch gedit will do. kwrite is another good editor, but >> not tabbed, and it lacks some of the features of kate. >> >> * An xterm or console app, again with tabs. I like KDE 3's konsole, but >> any modern, configurable, tabbed console will do. > > > Interesting. I'm entirely the other way; while I'm perfectly happy to use a > tabbed browser, I find tabbed editors and tabbed consoles awful to use. I > want to have three different sections of code side by side on the screen for > comparison. I want to have half a dozen consoles all running different > things, all positioned so I can take in the state of those things at a > glance. I do not want to be wasting time flicking between this and that, > and relying on my relatively poor memory to cache all that information :-) > > Then again, I'm not as bad as one former colleague of mine. He reckons that > the main advantage of higher resolution screens is that he can tile more > 80x40 console windows on them.
I'm half way in between. Tabbed web browser, tabbed editor, but all my terminals/consoles are untabbed. I don't use screen/tmux to have multiple consoles in one window, I use them to share a console between two systems (eg ssh to someone else's computer and let him/her watch what I'm doing). When I switch from terminal to terminal, I use their position and size to identify them (most of my terminal windows are 80x24; some are full screen; and if I'm working with avconv, I widen the window to about 110 or 120). Oh, and I use a tabbed MUD client, which (along with my editor) is pinned to all Xfce workspaces. But the web browser is Workspace 3 only. Not sure why I do that. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
