On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Tim Schofield <[email protected]>wrote:
> The choice of code editor is a very personal thing. Everybody has > their own requirements. > > It may be a personal thing but a developer can only be as productive as the tolls he or she uses. Developing an IDE is not an easy task (eclipse took like $200 mil to develop) . i think maybe its about what you are doing . if you want just a text editor you can stick with "other tools" but if you really want an Integrated Development Environment ....then Eclipse is the best open source tool for python development........ > Personally I hate eclipse. I find it slow and bloated. I once brought > this up with an eclipse developer who told me to buy a better > computer. Buy a better computer to run a glorified text editor!! > Eclipse only gets slow and blotted when you try to install all the plugins that exist.... its a balance ...cut what you dont need and leave what you need and you get the best ide ever conceived... and Eclipse is an IDE not just a text editor... > > Over the years many people have told me that I should learn emacs or > vi. Why should I have to "learn" a code editor. I just want to write > code. > Productivity ... Productivity ..Productivity ...Every developer knows that key strokes are way faster than moving a cursor around the screen. if you want to save yourself precious minutes (life is short) ....then you have to spend some painful time learning elisp...in the end its worth it...because you can basically do anything in emacs without using the slow mouse ....even check mail > > For about the last year I have been using a modified version of Geany > (http://www.geany.org) as my editor, but its by no means perfect, but > the best I have found so far. > unless i were actively developing it; i would never use a product still at 0.1 ...thats too young few users and lots of bugs > > IMHO > > thanks > Tim > > > On 21 September 2010 08:16, mugisha moses <[email protected]> wrote: > > for real heavy python , i think you should stick with eclipse with pydev > > plugin. it offers you code completion ,formatting (you can customize to > pep > > 108) and integrates easily with pylint , google appengine and has django > > helpers .for web stuff you can add aptana pluginb and everything is > > sweet..... > > > > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:58 PM, joachim Gwoke <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> At the risk of reviving an old thread here, there was someone asking for > a > >> python IDE. Well apart from Emacs, NetBeans and Eclipse as well as > whatever > >> else is out there. I did come across this > >> http://eric-ide.python-projects.org/index.html. How about a few > opinions and > >> comparisons? > >> > >> > >> regards > >> Joachim > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> LUG mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > >> > >> LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > >> > >> All Archives can be found at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > >> > >> The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > >> attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any > way. > >> --------------------------------------- > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > > All Archives can be found at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any > way. > > --------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > -- > WebERP Africa Ltd > +447710427049 > +256752963327 > +255784602561 > www.weberpafrica.com > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > >
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