Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-20 Thread Ten
On Saturday 17 June 2006 09:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Istvan Albert wrote: > > Scott David Daniels wrote: > > > To paraphrase someone else (their identity lost in my mental fog) about > > > learning VI: > > > "The two weeks you'll spend hating vi (or vim) as you learn it > > > will be rep

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-19 Thread jussij
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anyway, the only thing editplus doesn't do that I wish it > did is code folding. If you need a Python folding editor you could always take a look at Zeus: http://www.zeusedit.com/python.html > All the stuff you guys are talking about: line numbers, > syntax highlig

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-17 Thread 63q2o4i02
> > Cream is a package built on top of vim that presents a more "Windows > friendly" face to the vim/gvim editor. Cool thanks, I'll check it out. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-17 Thread Paddy
Hi 63q2o4i02 :-) Cream is a package built on top of vim that presents a more "Windows friendly" face to the vim/gvim editor. It is avaiable for Windows and Linux and might give you a single editor that you can use on more platforms, but maybe you might like the interface better. It does syntax hi

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-17 Thread H J van Rooyen
Tim Chase wrote: | > No need to argue. I started with vim, and finally switched to | > emacs less than one year later. | | Both are very-much-so good editors. I made the opposite switch | from emacs to vim in less than a year. Both are good^Wgreat | editors, so one's decision to use one over the

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-17 Thread 63q2o4i02
Istvan Albert wrote: > Scott David Daniels wrote: > > > To paraphrase someone else (their identity lost in my mental fog) about > > learning VI: > > "The two weeks you'll spend hating vi (or vim) as you learn it will > > be repaid in another month, ad the rest is pure profit." > > Time

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-16 Thread James Stroud
Tim Chase wrote: >> No need to argue. I started with vim, and finally switched to >> emacs less than one year later. > > > Both are very-much-so good editors. I made the opposite switch > from emacs to vim in less than a year. Both are good^Wgreat > editors, so one's decision to use one over th

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-16 Thread josiah . carlson
Walter Dörwald wrote: > I tried it out and the first problem I noticed is that on Windows > opening a file from a Samba drive doesn't seem to work, as PyPE converts > the filename to lowercase. ...Samba is tricky, and I hadn't thought of it before. Normal Windows is case-insensitive but case-pres

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-16 Thread Istvan Albert
Scott David Daniels wrote: > Surprise, surprise. One hour is not two weeks. I wrote: > pressing Ctrl-1 while editing the source will execute the python on the > current source *and* it displays the output in a lower pane as it runs > *and* it allows me to simultanously edit the file *while* th

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-16 Thread Walter Dörwald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > John Salerno wrote: > [snip] >> Thanks for any suggestions, and again I'm sorry if this feels like the >> same question as usual (it's just that in my case, I'm not looking for >> something like SPE, Komodo, Eric3, etc. right now). > > I was taking a peek at c.l.py to c

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-16 Thread Tim Chase
> No need to argue. I started with vim, and finally switched to > emacs less than one year later. Both are very-much-so good editors. I made the opposite switch from emacs to vim in less than a year. Both are good^Wgreat editors, so one's decision to use one over the other is more a matter of wo

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-16 Thread bruno at modulix
BartlebyScrivener wrote: >>>Most IDEs are rather weak as text editors compared to emacsen. > > > That's true, but even emacs and xemacs don't offer simple automatic > word wrap (i.e. wrap a line without splitting words or putting an eol > or hard carriage return at the end of every line). I don't

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-16 Thread bruno at modulix
BartlebyScrivener wrote: > Emacs must be dying if this thread could get all the way to 20 with > nobody arguing with the vi folks. No need to argue. I started with vim, and finally switched to emacs less than one year later. -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] f

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-16 Thread bruno at modulix
John Salerno wrote: > Ant wrote: > >> jEdit is for me still the best text editor available. Very extensible >> with macros (which can be written in Jython with the appropriate plugin >> installed). > > > I like the idea of being extensible, but of course I can only write in > Python. Jython is

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-16 Thread bruno at modulix
BartlebyScrivener wrote: > I see Eclipse mentioned here a lot. If you go for a Mammoth-weight GUI-only Java IDE and have a really powerful computer, why not ? -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-16 Thread bruno at modulix
John Salerno wrote: (snip) > Based on another thread, I tried out Scite, but no matter what I do it > doesn't seem to remember the window size and position, or any options I > choose (like showing line numbers). This is in the configuration files. Don't remember which and where, but I clearly rem

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-16 Thread mystilleef
On linux, I recommend Scribes. It's simple, slim and sleek, yet powerful. Features: Automatic completion Automatic bracket completion and smart insertion Snippets (ala TextMate) Bookmarks Syntax highlight for more than 30 languages Launches faster than any IDE out their Has no learning curve. Fea

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-16 Thread Sergei Organov
John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know there's a request for a good IDE at least once a week on the ng, > but hopefully this question is a little different. I'm looking for > suggestions for a good cross-platform text editor (which the features > for coding, such as syntax highlightin

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-16 Thread Ant
> > Vim is great if you have a good memory... Otherwise you end up trawling > > through the help to find out how to do stuff that would in another IDE > > be just a few menu clicks away. > > Mental memory (the painful kind of memory) rapidly turns into muscle > memory (the fun kind of memory) and

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-16 Thread Ant
John Salerno wrote: > Larry Bates wrote: > > > Nope, no Java knowledge necessary. Jython just compiles Python code > > to java bytecode instead of python bytecode. Once it is in java bytecode > > the JVM doesn't know where it came from. > > Well that's good to know. I guess there's not much of a

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-16 Thread Michele Simionato
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > BartlebyScrivener wrote: > > > Emacs must be dying if this thread could get all the way to 20 with > > nobody arguing with the vi folks. > > hints: 1) editor wars are so last century. 2) emacs has already won. > > Yep, there is no much point about arguing for Emacs since ev

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-06-15, Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Very small, very fast, very powerful, and very portable (though I'm > not sure about Mac...): Take a look at Jed from www.jedsoft.org. It's been my editor of choice for many years. Running Emacs on a machine with 8MB of RAM and 80MB of disk

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-06-15, Jarek Zgoda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You died in last century with your editor, we have tabs. My condolences. I hear there's a cure for that, though. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! These PRESERVES at

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread josiah . carlson
John Salerno wrote: > I know there's a request for a good IDE at least once a week on the ng, > but hopefully this question is a little different. I'm looking for > suggestions for a good cross-platform text editor (which the features > for coding, such as syntax highlighting, etc.) but not a full

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Michael Williams
If you're on a Mac, I'd recommend TextWrangler (http:// www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/) hands down. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread BartlebyScrivener
re soft word wrap >I have advocated seeing lines (with a CR and/or LF) as paragraphs, and > making the display of lines a matter of the particular display, not the > original data. That is much more natural for wrapped text, i.e. real > text rather than computer-parseable files. I agree. Meanwhi

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Dave Cook
On 2006-06-15, Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Very small, very fast, very powerful, and very portable (though I'm > not sure about Mac...): Take a look at Jed from www.jedsoft.org. > > You might not find it pretty, however... But if your distro includes xjed (ubuntu/debian, but not newe

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread david . reitter
Slawomir Nowaczyk wrote: > #> That's true, but even emacs and xemacs don't offer simple automatic > #> word wrap (i.e. wrap a line without splitting words or putting an eol > #> or hard carriage return at the end of every line). > > Of course it does... there is longlines.el and longlines-mode in

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Neil Hodgson
John Salerno: > Based on another thread, I tried out Scite, but no matter what I do it > doesn't seem to remember the window size and position, or any options I > choose (like showing line numbers). It seems to always reset itself each > time I open it. SciTE is configured by modifying opt

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Slawomir Nowaczyk
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:52:49 -0700 BartlebyScrivener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #> >> Most IDEs are rather weak as text editors compared to emacsen. #> #> That's true, but even emacs and xemacs don't offer simple automatic #> word wrap (i.e. wrap a line without splitting words or putting an eol #

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Istvan Albert wrote: > Scott David Daniels wrote: > >> To paraphrase someone else (their identity lost in my mental fog) about >> learning VI: >> "The two weeks you'll spend hating vi (or vim) as you learn it will >> be repaid in another month, ad the rest is pure profit." > > Time and

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread BartlebyScrivener
>> Most IDEs are rather weak as text editors compared to emacsen. That's true, but even emacs and xemacs don't offer simple automatic word wrap (i.e. wrap a line without splitting words or putting an eol or hard carriage return at the end of every line). I don't know if vim allows this. It's somet

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Dave Cook
On 2006-06-15, John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know there's a request for a good IDE at least once a week on the ng, > but hopefully this question is a little different. I'm looking for > suggestions for a good cross-platform text editor (which the features > for coding, such as syn

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Dave Hansen
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:12:26 GMT in comp.lang.python, John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I know there's a request for a good IDE at least once a week on the ng, >but hopefully this question is a little different. I'm looking for >suggestions for a good cross-platform text editor (which the

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Roel Schroeven
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: > If you use it for a little bit, one day you'll be editing a document in > Word, or notepad, or SciTE, or Eclipse; you'll instinctively type > '[ESC]:wq', and be suprised that the app is still open. That's when > you realize there's no turning back. Exactly... it happe

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Jarek Zgoda
Fredrik Lundh napisał(a): >> You died in last century with your editor, we have tabs. > > real python programmers don't use tabs. So I'll tab you the beer I owe you when we meet at EuroPython. -- Jarek Zgoda http://jpa.berlios.de/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Slawomir Nowaczyk
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:18:53 -0700 BartlebyScrivener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #> Emacs must be dying if this thread could get all the way to 20 with #> nobody arguing with the vi folks. We have learned the important lesson: those who are looking for true enlightenment will find Emacs anyway. We

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Scott David Daniels
Istvan Albert wrote: > Scott David Daniels wrote: > >> To paraphrase someone else (their identity lost in my mental fog) about >> learning VI: >> "The two weeks you'll spend hating vi (or vim) as you learn it will >> be repaid in another month, ad the rest is pure profit." > > Time and

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Jarek Zgoda wrote: > You died in last century with your editor, we have tabs. real python programmers don't use tabs. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread John Salerno
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > hints: 1) editor wars are so last century. 2) emacs has already won. Uh oh, here we go.. ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Jarek Zgoda
Fredrik Lundh napisał(a): >> Emacs must be dying if this thread could get all the way to 20 with >> nobody arguing with the vi folks. > 1) editor wars are so last century. > 2) emacs has already won. You died in last century with your editor, we have tabs. -- Jarek Zgoda http://jpa.berlios.d

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Fredrik Lundh
BartlebyScrivener wrote: > Emacs must be dying if this thread could get all the way to 20 with > nobody arguing with the vi folks. hints: 1) editor wars are so last century. 2) emacs has already won. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Istvan Albert
Scott David Daniels wrote: > To paraphrase someone else (their identity lost in my mental fog) about > learning VI: > "The two weeks you'll spend hating vi (or vim) as you learn it will > be repaid in another month, ad the rest is pure profit." Time and again I hear this (no shortage o

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Jarek Zgoda
BartlebyScrivener napisał(a): > Emacs must be dying if this thread could get all the way to 20 with > nobody arguing with the vi folks. Will the Windows vim and gvim users > vouch for its stability on Windows? Sure. Do you need any legal assistance? -- Jarek Zgoda http://jpa.berlios.de/ -- htt

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Benji York
BartlebyScrivener wrote: > Emacs must be dying if this thread could get all the way to 20 with > nobody arguing with the vi folks. heh :) > Will the Windows vim and gvim users vouch for its stability on > Windows? It's very stable on Windows. -- Benji York -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/lis

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread BartlebyScrivener
Emacs must be dying if this thread could get all the way to 20 with nobody arguing with the vi folks. Will the Windows vim and gvim users vouch for its stability on Windows? rd -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread John Salerno
Larry Bates wrote: > Nope, no Java knowledge necessary. Jython just compiles Python code > to java bytecode instead of python bytecode. Once it is in java bytecode > the JVM doesn't know where it came from. Well that's good to know. I guess there's not much of a point in writing pure Python co

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Larry Bates
John Salerno wrote: > Fredrik Lundh wrote: >> John Salerno wrote: >> jEdit is for me still the best text editor available. Very extensible with macros (which can be written in Jython with the appropriate plugin installed). >>> >>> I like the idea of being extensible, but of course I

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread RunLevelZero
Your SciTE problem is easily fixable by choosing " options / Open Global Options File " and then there are plenty of settings. Use the SciTE.html file and it will explain them all and there are many but the defaults usually work well to start out. I have had no issues with Linux. I use Debian. H

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread James Stroud
Ant wrote: >>I've tried a few others, like TextPad and Crimson, and right now I use >>UltraEdit, which I love actually, except for minor issues here and >>there. But it'd be nice to make the move, as much as possible, to free, >>open-source, cross-platform software. > > > Vim is great if you have

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Roel Schroeven
John Salerno schreef: > Sybren Stuvel wrote: > >> Vim is definitely the best. If you're a GUI man, you can use GVim. > > Ok, you guys are slowly converting me, but I do have one question: which > "version" of VIM should I use, or does it matter? I mean, there seem to > be at least two versions,

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Paddy
John Salerno wrote: > I know there's a request for a good IDE at least once a week on the ng, > but hopefully this question is a little different. I'm looking for > suggestions for a good cross-platform text editor (which the features > for coding, such as syntax highlighting, etc.) but not a full

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread olsongt
John Salerno wrote: > Ant wrote: > > > jEdit is for me still the best text editor available. Very extensible > > with macros (which can be written in Jython with the appropriate plugin > > installed). > > I like the idea of being extensible, but of course I can only write in > Python. Are there an

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Jarek Zgoda
John Salerno napisał(a): >> Vim is definitely the best. If you're a GUI man, you can use GVim. > > Ok, you guys are slowly converting me, but I do have one question: which > "version" of VIM should I use, or does it matter? I mean, there seem to > be at least two versions, a text version and the

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread John Salerno
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > John Salerno wrote: > >>> jEdit is for me still the best text editor available. Very extensible >>> with macros (which can be written in Jython with the appropriate plugin >>> installed). >> >> I like the idea of being extensible, but of course I can only write in >> Pytho

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Ant
John Salerno wrote: > Ant wrote: > > > jEdit is for me still the best text editor available. Very extensible > > with macros (which can be written in Jython with the appropriate plugin > > installed). > > I like the idea of being extensible, but of course I can only write in > Python. Are there an

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Fredrik Lundh
John Salerno wrote: >> jEdit is for me still the best text editor available. Very extensible >> with macros (which can be written in Jython with the appropriate plugin >> installed). > > I like the idea of being extensible, but of course I can only write in > Python. Are there any editors that

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread John Salerno
Ant wrote: > jEdit is for me still the best text editor available. Very extensible > with macros (which can be written in Jython with the appropriate plugin > installed). I like the idea of being extensible, but of course I can only write in Python. Are there any editors that support that? --

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Ant
> I've tried a few others, like TextPad and Crimson, and right now I use > UltraEdit, which I love actually, except for minor issues here and > there. But it'd be nice to make the move, as much as possible, to free, > open-source, cross-platform software. Vim is great if you have a good memory...

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread John Salerno
Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Vim is definitely the best. If you're a GUI man, you can use GVim. Ok, you guys are slowly converting me, but I do have one question: which "version" of VIM should I use, or does it matter? I mean, there seem to be at least two versions, a text version and the GUI version

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Tim Chase
I recommend Vim. > I'm looking for suggestions for a good cross-platform text > editor Check. > (which the features for coding, such as syntax > highlighting, etc.) Check. > but not a full IDE with all the fancy jazz > (GUI developer, UML diagrams, etc.). Check. > Ideally, it would be someth

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Scott David Daniels
John Salerno wrote: > And naturally there are Emacs and Vim, but I just don't know if I need > to invest *that* much time into learning one of them (probably Vim, > since I hear it's lighter and faster). To paraphrase someone else (their identity lost in my mental fog) about learning VI: "T

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread BartlebyScrivener
I see Eclipse mentioned here a lot. Never tried it (i use Komodo). http://www.eclipse.org/ It uses plugins. So, e.g., if you decide you do want an IDE, you add PyDev http://pydev.sourceforge.net/index.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread Josiah Manson
You could try SciTE. It has syntax highlighting for almost every language I have heard of plus some, and seems to work pretty well. It has some issues with fonts, and on some computers is unstable (it crashes in linux, and may have issues with multiprocessor machines). I would also like to know if

a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-15 Thread John Salerno
I know there's a request for a good IDE at least once a week on the ng, but hopefully this question is a little different. I'm looking for suggestions for a good cross-platform text editor (which the features for coding, such as syntax highlighting, etc.) but not a full IDE with all the fancy j