On 2010-06-15, Steven D'Aprano <steve-remove-t...@cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:20:29 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote about IDLE: > >>> We are at once lucky to have a built in editor >> >> It is certainly a boon to someone like me who now only programs in >> Python and had no experience, let alone commitment to any of the current >> alternative. > > I know that lots of people swear by IDEs, and back in Ancient Days I > used to use the THINK Pascal IDE on a Macintosh so I'm not hostile to > the idea. But in those days you could only run one app at a time, so > you needed an IDE or you'd go insane. These days I have an xterm open > with a couple of tabs in one window, an editor open in the other, and > it all Just Works. The only nuisance is when I get a traceback, I > have to manually copy the line number from the terminal window and > paste it into the Go To Line dialog in my editor, instead of the > editor magically scrolling to the right line automatically. But other > than that, I don't see the advantage of an IDE. What am I missing?
You got me. I tend to type the line number rather than cut/paste, but I too have tried IDEs and found them cumbersome. It's Emacs and a couple xterms for me. I do recommend an editor with syntax highlighting and indentation tools. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Why is everything made at of Lycra Spandex? gmail.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list