I am not a core developer but I use emacs exclusively for development so you may find this useful.
On Feb 3, 2008, at 6:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am also the guy more-or-less responsible for syncing python-mode > with the > version delivered as part of the XEmacs packages (last synced about > a week > ago). The GNU Emacs folks wrote their own Python mode from scratch > a couple > years ago. Both are mentioned here: > > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/PythonMode > > I have no experience with the GNU Emacs code. I recently upgraded to the emacs 22.1/python.el which I tried *really* hard to use, but eventually ended up installing python-mode again. There are a number of problems in the emacs lisp that I was able to get around, but eventually the bugginess overcame my will: *R, RE, and RET (i.e. the keystroke shift-r) were bound to commands in the major mode (meaning you couldn't type an R without triggering python-send-string). You can comment out this line in python.el to get around this: ;; (define-key map "\C-c\C-s" 'python-send-string) *echoing was occurring in the run-python shell. You can easily tell comint to process echoes for single-line commands, but if your tabs are converted to spaces you would need to do something like this to get rid of it in general: ;(add-hook 'inferior-python-mode-hook ; (lambda () ; (setq comint-process-echoes t) ; (set (make-variable-buffer-local 'indent-tabs-mode) nil))) * The emacs.py never worked for me (I ended up completely disabling it) * Opening a run-python shell when you already have one open does not work as you would expect. This is fixable also, but this was also the final straw for me. Realizing these things is very painful. Therefore I definitely recommend python-mode.el, which you can install by adding this to your .emacs: ;; Use a real man's python-mode (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.py$" . python-mode) auto-mode-alist)) (setq interpreter-mode-alist (cons '("python" . python-mode) interpreter-mode-alist)) (autoload 'python-mode "python-mode" "Python editing mode." t) (autoload 'py-shell "python-mode" "Python shell." t nil) Assuming the .el files are on your load-path and the .py files are in your site-packages. jared _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com