On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 9:48 AM, yanom @linuxmail.org <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > both scite and geany are terrible for python, in my opinion.
I keep coming back to SciTE myself after trying just about everything else. I use vim occasionally, but SciTE tends to get out of my way the most. How is it "terrible for python" exactly? Or do you just think it's terrible period? That would make a little more sense. One thing that has saved me numerous times for instance, is convert to tabs. I get something that uses indentation of 2, which doesn't fit my preferred indentation of 4, I tabify it, and indentify it in two clicks. It has the same basic folding, paren and quote matching etc that everything else has. It has autocomplete if you want it (although I can't stand autocomplete). It runs the program in a separate process, and any freeze can be killed (emergency break you mentioned). It's NOT an ide, it lacks debugging (although there might be some extensions for that) and project management features (probably an extension for that too) but as an editor it works really well. I suppose if you HAVE to have an ide, it won't work for you. But terrible? That's a bit far. Anyway, I haven't seen any mention of Editra. It's pretty new, but seems like it stands toe to toe pretty well with other ides. It even has a vi mode which is pretty cool.