Michael Vilain <mev943...@yahoo.com>: > "best" is subjective. Anytime someone wants the "best", I ask "what > features are important to you that would make it the best" because I'm > pretty sure what I find important wouldn't be what they find > important.
That's a bit like asking what gender, nationality and religion you'd prefer for yourself. I mean, having used emacs since the mid-1980's, everything just seems to be in the right place -- including typing this posting. > - syntax coloring > - parathesis/block matching > - auto indent Yes, in active use. > - expansion of keywords, variables, subroutines Never learned to need that. > - integrated documentation so you don't have to lookup the syntax and > arguments of a function I have seen that in action with eclipse and Java. It could never match having a web browser window next to the editor window: <URL: https://docs.python.org/3/library/>. It would be nice if python provided a full set of man pages as well as info documentation like C. Those are integrated into emacs. > - integration with code management systems (svn, git, github) > - regular expression searching > - multi-file regular expression search/replace > - multi-pane/window diff/merge > - programmability (e.g. write/store macros to perform repeatable tasks) Yes, in active use. > - integrated compile, run & syntax checking (this is really a function > of an IDE) > - interactive debugger (program stepping, expression & variable > evaluation, breakpoints, watchpoints, macros) [this is why I like perl] As far as Python goes, emacs does have some elementary support for pdb. Haven't found it all that practical, though. > - extensibility to add features (lint or code formatting, special > framework, etc.) Although they do exist for emacs, I'm not a big fan of special plugins of any sort. > What's the best? That's your homework. Write 500 describing what is > the Best editor and why. Emacs doesn't take up the whole screen. It integrates seamlessly with the Unix way of doing things (but has some trouble with non-Unix culture items like Java). It can be run perfectly fine in a text terminal session. It takes care of all of your typing needs: when you type, type in emacs. Shell, email, news, documentation (with ASCII graphics!), programming... Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
