I've tried quite a few python IDEs, and so far I like Eric the most. It's a great piece of software. Thanks a lot, and keep up good work!
There are many things I like. Feature set is well thought. Unit tests, profiler, coverage statistics, refactoring -- that's very cool. But there are some things that don't work for me, and some other things I think can be improved.
I apologize in advance if some of my questions are FAQ. I tried to search mail list archives, but I could've easily miss something.
1. For some reason profile and coverage statistics does not work for me. They run but don't show any reports. Right click on source file -> "Show" submenu has "Code coverage" and "Profile data" entries but they are inactive. Another weird thing is that when I am trying to profile my unittest I get "0 tests run" in the report. Tests set up in usual way
if __name__=='__main': unittest.main()
2. There are quite a lot of small annoyances with keyboard shortcuts. I am an emacs user, so I wanted to customize shortcuts to be close to emacs'. Obvious shortcoming is that there are no double keystrokes (e.g. C-X C-S). That's probably not that easy to implement, oh well. Even more annoying is that certain commands are not configurable. For example there is no way to change "Go to line" keystroke. Alt-BS performs undo, even though it is not listed as a registered combination for Undo. I tried to assign Alt-BS to delete word on the left, and shortcut configuration dialog allowed me to do that, but Alt-BS still does undo. I am sure there are more things like this, that's just something I noticed in first couple of hours.
3. Too many common operations launch dialogs. I would really love to be able to run script without answering questions about command line arguments and working dir. Well, for run script there is such alternative -- restart script, but for example for UnitTests I see no way to run tests with a single key. BTW, while we are at it, it would be really nice to make unittest screen a dockable panel rather than separate window.
4. Another comment on unittest. Why does it require suite() function? Why not run all unittests automatically, akin to unittest.main() if suite() is not present? For instance such a suite can be easily created this way:
unittest.defaultTestLoader.loadTestsFromModule(module)
I am running eric 3.4 on debian.
--Kirill
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