On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:01 PM, <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote: > Eduardo O. Padoan: >> You are almost *describing* reinteract: > > - Thank you for the link and the software, I have not tried it yet, > but from the screencast it looks quite nice. > - I am glad that there are people that don't think that Emacs is > (despite being good) the alpha and omega of editing. There's space for > other ideas beside Emacs.
But it is! <wink> > - Maybe I was describing reinteract there, but that's only the first > part of my post :-) > - I can see that reinteract is based on a interaction style quite > similar to the shell of Mathematica. I was talking about something > different, and more similar to TextCalc, but in the end I think > reinteract may be good enough for my purposes, so I'll try to run it. > And I may be happy enough. I dont known TextCalc, but I guess that reinteract is flexible enough to the general purpose of "experimenting with Live code". > - Eventually I may find the time and will to create my "interactive > python text" :-) I think there's space for many different solutions. > - Despite many years of experiments, development, shells, editors, and > the like, I am sure there are other designs not yet tried or not > common enough yet (beside the normal editors, shells, smart object- > oriented graphical shells like hotwire shell, Resolver One, and few > other weird things, like one where you can zoom text and images at > different scales, other text-based systems, etc). Sure, thats the spirit. > Bye, > bearophile > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Eduardo de Oliveira Padoan http://djangopeople.net/edcrypt/ "Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong." -- Goethe, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
