On Thursday, January 5, 2017 at 12:32:19 PM UTC-8, fpp wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Chris Clark <chris.p.cl...@ba.com> > > wrote: > >> I want an IDE that I can use at work and home, linux and dare I say > >> windows. > >> Sublime, had to remove it from my work PC as it is not licensed. > >> Atom, loved it until it slowed down. > >> VIM, ok the best if you know vi inside out. > >> Any JAVA based IDE, just slows up on work PC's due to all the > >> background stuff that corporates insist they run. > >> Why can not someone more clever than I fork DrPython and bring it up > >> to date. > >> Its is fast, looks great and just does the job ? > > I'm suprised no one in this rich thread has even mentioned SciTE : > http://www.scintilla.org/ > > Admittedly it's closer to an excellent code editor than a full-blown IDE. > But it's very lightweight and fast, cross-platform, has superb syntax > coloring and UTF8 handling, and is highly configurable through its > configuration file(s) and embedded LUA scripting. > It's also well maintained : version 1.0 came out in 1999, and the latest > (3.7.2) is just a week old... > > Its IDE side consists mostly of hotkeys to run the interpreter or > compiler for the language you're editing, with the file in the current > tab. > A side pane shows the output (prints, exceptions, errors etc.) of the > running script. > A nice touch is that it understands these error messages and makes them > clickable, taking you to the tab/module/line where the error occurred. > Also, it can save its current tabs (and their state) to a "session" file > for later reloading, which is close to the idea of a "project" in most > IDEs. > Oh, and it had multi-selection and multi-editing before most of the new > IDEs out there :-) > > Personally that's about all I need for my Python activities, but it can > be customized much further than I have done : there are "hooks" for other > external programs than compilers/interpreters, so you can also run a > linter, debugger or cvs from the editor. > > One word of warning: unlike most newer IDEs which tend to be shiny-shiny > and ful of bells and whistles at first sight, out of the box SciTE is > *extremely* plain looking (you could even say drab, or ugly :-). > It is up to you to decide how it should look and what it should do or > not, through the configuration file. > Fortunately the documentation is very thorough, and there are a lot of > examples lying around to be copy/pasted (like a dark theme, LUA scripts > etc.). > > Did I mention it's lightweight ? The archive is about 1.5 MB and it just > needs unzipping, no installation. May be worth a look if you haven't > tried it yet... > fp
Interesting thanks for the link. There are a huge diversity when it comes to IDEs/editors. Now I have more than enough options. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
