[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ChinStrap wrote: >> When not using the interactive prompt, what are you using? I keep >> hearing everyone say Emacs, but I can't understand it at all. I keep >> trying to learn and understand why so many seem to like it because I >> can't understand customization even without going through a hundred >> menus that might contain the thing I am looking for (or I could go >> learn another language just to customize!). > > Epsilon http://www.lugaru.com/ is a commercial Emacs-like editor with a > built-in Python mode and will automatically treat .py files as being > Python. No fiddling is required. It works well, and I spend many of my > waking hours in front of an Epsilon (even created a Fortran mode :)). I > think Epsilon is used more on Windows than Linux/Unix, where Emacs and > XEmacs have existed for a long time, but an Epsilon license contains > binaries for Linux and other Unices as well.
$250 just for an Emacs clone? Sorry, but this is a bit greedy. Sure, it does some things differently, but in the same time you learn Epsilon, you can learn Emacs. > XEmacs/Emacs frustrate me, for example constantly asking if I want to > enable a "recursive mini-buffer", which I have no clue about or > interest in. Epsilon is a well-done Emacs IMO. constantly? You seem to make fundamental mistakes using Emacs. Reading one or two tutorials could have helped. mfg Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list