Re: OT: Text editors

2012-08-30 Thread William Ray Wing
> On 7/29/2012 5:28 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> On 29/07/2012 06:08, Ben Finney wrote: >>> Tim Chase writes: >>> [byte] >> >> Point taken, snag being I've never used any nix box in anger. This >> thread reminds of the good 'ole days when I were a lad using TPU on VMS. >> Have we got any V

Re: OT: Text editors

2012-08-30 Thread Robert Miles
On 7/29/2012 5:28 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 29/07/2012 06:08, Ben Finney wrote: Tim Chase writes: On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: I highly recommend the use of notepad++. If anyone knows of a better text editor for Windows please let me know :) I highly recommend n

Re: OT: Text editors

2012-07-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-07-29, Mark Lawrence wrote: > Point taken, snag being I've never used any nix box in anger. This > thread reminds of the good 'ole days when I were a lad using TPU on > VMS. Have we got any VMS aficionados here? It's been a long time, but I used eve/tpu as my main editor for several y

Re: OT: Text editors (was Re: Search and replace text in XML file?)

2012-07-29 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 28/07/2012 16:51, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Mark Lawrence > wrote: >> I highly recommend the use of notepad++. If anyone knows of a better text >> editor for Windows please let me know :) > > My current preference is SciTE, available on Linux and Windows both.

Re: OT: Text editors

2012-07-29 Thread MRAB
On 29/07/2012 15:15, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 29/07/2012 14:36, Robert Marshall wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, python.l...@tim.thechases.com wrote: On 07/29/12 05:28, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 29/07/2012 06:08, Ben Finney wrote: Tim Chase writes: Learn one of Emacs or Vim well, and you won't need

Re: OT: Text editors

2012-07-29 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
On 29 July 2012 06:36, rusi wrote: > Just curious about your emacs+python usage. > Do you use the emacs builtin python mode or the separate python-mode? > Do you use pdb? > Any other special setups? One thing that I find very useful is to configure flymake to use pyflakes. Very useful to get fee

Re: OT: Text editors

2012-07-29 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 29/07/2012 14:36, Robert Marshall wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, python.l...@tim.thechases.com wrote: On 07/29/12 05:28, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 29/07/2012 06:08, Ben Finney wrote: Tim Chase writes: Learn one of Emacs or Vim well, and you won't need to worry about text editors again. Point

Re: OT: Text editors

2012-07-29 Thread Robert Marshall
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, python.l...@tim.thechases.com wrote: > On 07/29/12 05:28, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> On 29/07/2012 06:08, Ben Finney wrote: >>> Tim Chase writes: >>> Learn one of Emacs or Vim well, and you won't need to worry >>> about text editors again. >> >> Point taken, snag being I've nev

Re: OT: Text editors

2012-07-29 Thread Tim Chase
On 07/29/12 05:28, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 29/07/2012 06:08, Ben Finney wrote: >> Tim Chase writes: >> Learn one of Emacs or Vim well, and you won't need to worry >> about text editors again. > > Point taken, snag being I've never used any nix box in anger. > This thread reminds of the good 'ol

Re: OT: Text editors

2012-07-29 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 29/07/2012 06:08, Ben Finney wrote: Tim Chase writes: On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: I highly recommend the use of notepad++. If anyone knows of a better text editor for Windows please let me know :) I highly recommend not tying your editor skills to a single OS,

Re: OT: Text editors

2012-07-29 Thread Ben Finney
rusi writes: > Do you use the emacs builtin python mode or the separate python-mode? I'm not sure. I have both installed. I try to keep my Emacs setup portable across different machines, so I'm probably using the built-in mode. > Do you use pdb? Occasionally, but I haven't learned how to do t

Re: OT: Text editors

2012-07-28 Thread rusi
On Jul 29, 10:08 am, Ben Finney wrote: > Tim Chase writes: > > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > > > I highly recommend the use of notepad++.  If anyone knows of a > > > better text editor for Windows please let me know :) I would have bet Mark was ribbing the folks on this

Re: OT: Text editors

2012-07-28 Thread Ben Finney
Tim Chase writes: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > > I highly recommend the use of notepad++. If anyone knows of a > > better text editor for Windows please let me know :) I highly recommend not tying your editor skills to a single OS, especially one as ornery for progr

Re: OT: Text editors (was Re: Search and replace text in XML file?)

2012-07-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:33 PM, hamilton wrote: > Ok, so the answer is no. In terms of the editor, it's fine; you need only worry about Scintilla itself if you're aiming to incorporate it in your own program. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: OT: Text editors (was Re: Search and replace text in XML file?)

2012-07-28 Thread hamilton
On 7/28/2012 4:42 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 7:43 AM, hamilton wrote: On 7/28/2012 1:23 PM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: For info: http://scintilla.org/ Just did a quick check on scintilla. This looks like a single file editor. Is there a project like capability in t

Re: OT: Text editors (was Re: Search and replace text in XML file?)

2012-07-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 7:43 AM, hamilton wrote: > On 7/28/2012 1:23 PM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> For info: http://scintilla.org/ > > > Just did a quick check on scintilla. > > This looks like a single file editor. > > Is there a project like capability in there that I did not notice ? Sc

Re: OT: Text editors (was Re: Search and replace text in XML file?)

2012-07-28 Thread hamilton
On 7/28/2012 1:23 PM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: For info: http://scintilla.org/ Just did a quick check on scintilla. This looks like a single file editor. Is there a project like capability in there that I did not notice ? Thanks hamilton -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python

Re: OT: Text editors (was Re: Search and replace text in XML file?)

2012-07-28 Thread wxjmfauth
On Saturday, July 28, 2012 7:47:24 PM UTC+2, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:43 AM, wrote: > > > On Saturday, July 28, 2012 5:51:48 PM UTC+2, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > > > > ... and has a few limitations (eg it only really supports > > >> > > >> UTF-8), > > > > > > ?! >

Re: OT: Text editors (was Re: Search and replace text in XML file?)

2012-07-28 Thread Tim Chase
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > I highly recommend the use of notepad++. If anyone knows of a > better text editor for Windows please let me know :) I'll advocate for Vim which is crazy-powerful and works nicely on just about any platform I touch. Others will advocate for

Re: OT: Text editors (was Re: Search and replace text in XML file?)

2012-07-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:43 AM, wrote: > On Saturday, July 28, 2012 5:51:48 PM UTC+2, Chris Angelico wrote: > > ... and has a few limitations (eg it only really supports >> >> UTF-8), > > ?! > > It's my daily plain text editor (Windows) since ? (I don't remember). > And I'm using it for utf-8, u

Re: OT: Text editors (was Re: Search and replace text in XML file?)

2012-07-28 Thread wxjmfauth
On Saturday, July 28, 2012 5:51:48 PM UTC+2, Chris Angelico wrote: ... and has a few limitations (eg it only really supports > > UTF-8), ?! It's my daily plain text editor (Windows) since ? (I don't remember). And I'm using it for utf-8, utf-16 and cp1252 (my favorite coding) without problems.

Re: OT: Text editors (was Re: Search and replace text in XML file?)

2012-07-28 Thread Alister
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 01:51:48 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Mark Lawrence > wrote: >> I highly recommend the use of notepad++. If anyone knows of a better >> text editor for Windows please let me know :) > > My current preference is SciTE, available on Linux and

OT: Text editors (was Re: Search and replace text in XML file?)

2012-07-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > I highly recommend the use of notepad++. If anyone knows of a better text > editor for Windows please let me know :) My current preference is SciTE, available on Linux and Windows both. It's configured using Lua, has lexers (and thus syntax