On Thu, 29 May 2014 15:11:31 -0500, Mark H Harris wrote: > On 5/29/14 11:44 AM, Paul Rudin wrote: >> Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> writes: >>> I am curious how many of the editors people have been recommending >>> have all of the following Idle features, that I use constantly. >>> >>> 1. Run code in the editor with a single keypress. >>> >>> 2. Display output and traceback in a window that lets you jump from >>> the any line in the traceback to the corresponding file and line, >>> opening the file if necessary. >>> >>> 3. Search unopened files (grep) for a string or re. >>> >>> 4. Display grep output in a window that lets you jump from any 'hit' >>> to the corresponding file and line, opening the file if necessary. >> >> Emacs. >> >> > Emacs is the coolest tech editor out there, by far; however, the very > nature of Emacs (which makes it the coolest) is also unfortunately the > very thing that sucks about it... highly configurable (&extensible), > highly complex, intricately complicated; especially for novices. > > The OP is looking for an "IDE-like" interactive environment, because he > is "uncomfortable" with IDLE. IDLE is THE choice, however ---precisely > because IDLE is clean, elegant, and most importantly "simple". It is > simple to understand, and it is even simpler to use effectively... even > for novice pythonics. IDLE is straight-forward. > > As Terry pointed out, IDLE is very useful and functional. And in the > modern python world is also very stable (IDLE used to get a black eye > because it had snags early-on). Today IDLE works, has great features, > and actually helps new users get on-board with Python. > > marcus
The only thing missing form emacs is a good text editor ;-) -- Chemist who falls in acid will be tripping for weeks. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
