Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> writes: > In message <mailman.752.1243344314.8015.python-l...@python.org>, Jean-Michel > Pichavant wrote: > >> Why buy an IDE when you just need a text editor ? > > Because all the cool kids have one. If you want to be different and > individual like them, you have to have what they have.
Of course it's not always clear what the difference is in any case. Emacs, for example, has most of the features of many IDEs (not to mention many features that they lack). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list