In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > I get the feeling that a ot of people working with heavy IDEs don't > realize how capable vim/emacs are, so I'll give a brief rundown of what > my Vim environment does for me. (I do Python web development)--if you > don't like the Vi keybindings, the Cream package is Vim that behaves > like a regular modeless editor but with all of vim's power (and a nice > embedded Python interpreter for writing extensions): > > 1. Python syntax checking: as I'm typing along, if I input a syntax > error then the line is immediately highlighted in red. Useful for > catching brainos like: > if a=1: > (which will highlight in red when I hit enter, point out that I need == > instead of =).
What do you use to do this? Cream doesn't seem to do this oob. > 2. Normal tag-jump stuff: Ctrl-click on a function/method call (or > class or whatever) will jump to the function/method/class definition > (Ctrl-T works as well if you don't like clicking). It keeps a stack of > visited files so you can drill down through your call stack and then > pop back up to where you came from. Do you set up ctags for this? I get error messages "E433: No tags file" and "E426: tag not found: xxx" when I Ctrl-click on a method call. > 3. Python class browsing stuff: A Class menu shows the parent and child > classes of the one you're currently in, and all the methods of the > current class; selecting any of the above jumps to the appropriate file > and line. Is this the Tag List? > 4. Interactive documentation stuff: When I type an open-paren, it looks > to see what the prior keyword is and displays help for it in the status > line (preferring Python documentation, then docstrings, then comments > before the function/method/class definition). Even if there's no > help/comments, it'll show the arguments that the function takes. So > if, say, I type: > > cmp( > > then the status line displays: > > cmp(x, y) Compare the two objects X and Y and return an integer > according to ... > > If I hit F1 it'll show the full help text. Often the arguments are > enough, and I find the status-line display a lot less intrusive than > many on-the-fly help systems I've seen. This stuff doesn't happen either. How is it set up? > 5. A client menu selects which client I want to work in (so, say, I get > a bug report for Client A, I select them from the menu). The Class > menu and other functions respect this (if I'm in the generic Company > class, the Class menu will list Client A's Company subclass before the > subclasses of other companies; if I jump to the Company definition, > it'll go to Company A's client-specific version). It also restarts > development httpd servers on the current machine running with conf > files appropriate to that client. ... Where is this "client menu"? How is it set up? ________________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list