On 2008-03-20, jmDesktop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I believe Grant was suggesting that Emacs often serves a >> similar purpose on Unix to what Visual Studio does on Windows, >> which seemed to be what you were asking. When asking about >> Mac OS X here, you are likely to get a lot of generic Unix >> responses. (Would it have been clearer if he had just said >> "emacs?") > > No. Typically when someone posts a one-liner search it means > go figure it out and stop bothering "us." I had already > searched. I could not get it to work,
Could not get what to work? > which is why I posted. If I took it wrong I apologize. I honestly thought you were asking how to run/debug python programs inside emacs. A couple of the hits answered that question. The others explained how do get python-aware editing modes configured. > I really had two questions. One is just how to run a program from > within the editor and the other is if my thinking on how development > is done in python wrong to start with. Most of my non-Windows > programs have been on Unix using vi, but it has been a while. I'm > used to writing a program in visual studio and running it. Perhaps you'd be more comfortable with one of the IDEs? http://wiki.python.org/moin/IntegratedDevelopmentEnvironments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_integrated_development_environments#Python > If that's the wrong expectation for python programming in > emacs, then I wanted to know. Yes, you can run programs (including python debuggers) from inside emacs. The simplest way is to do "meta-x shell" to get a shell prompt inside emacs, then just type whatever command line you want to use to run the program. Or you can map a command to a keystroke that will run the program. I generally just have another terminal window open where I run the program -- but I've never liked IDEs so your tastes may differ. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list