John J. Lee wrote: >Aaron Bingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >[...ex-emacs user explains switch to Eclipse...] > > >>The killer PyDev feature for me is pylint integration. Being informed >>immediately when you mistype a variable name is a big timesaver. Also >> >> > >I now find it difficult to mis-type variable names in Emacs, since I >have F4 bound to dabbrev-expand. I also do standard things like using >query-replace when renaming. Actually, something like dabbrev-expand >is perhaps the one thing I would find indispensible switching to any >other editor -- I wonder if Eclipse/PyDev has it? > >(dabbrev-expand searches backwards in the current buffer to find >'words' that are completions of the word you're typing immediately >before the cursor position (then back and forth in all other buffers >if search in the current buffer failed...), until it finds a >completion; then you can repeat the command to cycle through all other >possible completions.) > >
Yes, Eclipse has it by default (not a pydev work): Alt+/ > > > >>nice is the refactoring support (although this it is possible to >>integrate BicycleRepairMan! with Emacs, I found it easier to use in >>Eclipse). >> >> >[...] > >Refactoring and the general 'semantic slant' certainly seems the >interesting bit about Eclipse (that and the fact that Emacs is a bit >old and hairy, and Eclipse is growing a big user base like Emacs). > >Not entirely sure Lisp->Java is progress, though. > > Well, actually, pydev does some things with python too (code-completion for builtins and bicycle repair man integration), and it would be extremely simple to add some scripting capabilities with jython too, so, I don't really think you'd be tied to 'only java' -- altough its core will always be. > >John > > > Cheers, Fabio -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
