> Isn't Eclipse kind of project oriented? I.e. not suited for opening a > single file, anywhere, and viewing/editing it. I get the impression > that it prefers to have some "project" or "workspace" file which > groups a set of files and contains configuration, build rules and so > on. The guy three postings up suggested a general-purpose text editor.
Yes, it prefers to have a project or workspace (which really helps you navigating through the source, so, it's one thing I usually see as positive, not negative). Still, you can use it to edit files outside of its workspace -- that's supported on Pydev -- but it looses some of those features (which are not usually available on regular editors anyway, so, that'd probably be ok if comparing with an editor, not an IDE) > (As a side note: I don't use Eclipse myself, but I have seen novice > programmers editing Python code with it, and what saw wasn't > impressive. They *did* some kind of Python "plugin" installed, but > were sitting there pressing SPACE to indent every line manually.) Not sure which plugin they had, but I'm pretty positive that if they had Pydev installed they'd have auto-indent without any problems (I can assure you that auto-indent is a feature that received a lot of attention in Pydev). Cheers, Fabio -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
