On Sat, 2011-04-16, Alec Taylor wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 3:29 PM, John Bokma <j...@castleamber.com> wrote: >> Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> writes: >> >>> Alec Taylor <alec.tayl...@gmail.com> writes: >>> >>>> I'm looking for an IDE which offers syntax-highlighting, >>>> code-completion, tabs, an embedded interpreter and which is portable >>>> (for running from USB on Windows). >>> >>> Either of Emacs <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/> or Vim >>> <URL:http://www.vim.org/> are excellent general-purpose editors that >>> have strong features for programmers of any popular language or text >>> format. >> >> I second Emacs or vim. I currently use Emacs the most, but I think it's >> good to learn both.
> Thanks, but non of the IDEs so far suggested have an embedded python > interpreter AND tabs... > emacs having the opposite problem, missing tabs (also, > selecting text with my mouse is something I do often). Does it *have* to be tabs? Why? Both Emacs and Vim can have multiple files open, and have various powerful ways to navigate between them. If you cannot stand non-tabbed interfaces, you probably can't stand other non-Windows-like features of these two, like their menu systems. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . \X/ snipabacken.se> O o . -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
