Wow I like the sound of "Learning a highly portable, industrial-strength program like Vim or emacs is something I highly recommend". I use Aquamacs (it's emacs with Mac OS-X Interface) and emacs on other platform. It works great for me.
Neil Cerutti wrote: > On 2006-08-24, JAG CHAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Friends, I am trying to learn Python. It will be of great help > > to me if you let me know which one would be best editor for > > learning Python. Plese note that I would like to have > > multiplatform editor which will be useful for both LInux and > > Windows XP. > > Start with IDLE, which will likely be available everywhere you > use Python. The full instructions for using IDLE take up about > two pages of text, which means it's lightweight, and it comes > preconfigured with good Python integration. > > Learning a highly portable, industrial-strength program like Vim > or emacs is something I highly recommend, but it's not > necessarily a productive thing to do that at the same time you're > learning Python. > > -- > Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list