Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-06 Thread Wayne Werner
On Fri, 4 Jan 2013, Roy Smith wrote: In article , Cameron Simpson wrote: On 01/04/13 01:34, Anssi Saari wrote: | Just curious since I read the same thing in a programming book recently | (21st century C). So what's the greatness that terminal multiplexors | offer over tabbed terminals? Especi

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-04 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 01/04/13 01:34, Anssi Saari wrote: > | Just curious since I read the same thing in a programming book recently > | (21st century C). So what's the greatness that terminal multiplexors > | offer over tabbed terminals? Especially for software development?

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-04 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 01/04/13 01:34, Anssi Saari wrote: | Just curious since I read the same thing in a programming book recently | (21st century C). So what's the greatness that terminal multiplexors | offer over tabbed terminals? Especially for software development? Do you include tiling terminal emulators? I use

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-04 Thread Tim Chase
On 01/04/13 01:34, Anssi Saari wrote: Ben Finney writes: And any decent Unix-alike (most OSen apart from Windows) comes with its own IDE: the shell, a good text editor (Vim or Emacs being the primary candidates), and a terminal multiplexor (such as ‘tmux’ or GNU Screen). Just curious since I

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-04 Thread jrodkeyjr
If you are going to review an IDE, or multiple, I would recommend Komodo and Komodo Edit. On Thursday, December 27, 2012 2:01:16 PM UTC-6, mogul wrote: > 'Aloha! > > > > I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix > alike machines hacking happily in vi, and la

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-04 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Anssi Saari wrote: > Ben Finney writes: > >> And any decent Unix-alike (most OSen apart from Windows) comes with its >> own IDE: the shell, a good text editor (Vim or Emacs being the primary >> candidates), and a terminal multiplexor (such as ‘tmux’ or GNU Screen).

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-04 Thread Anssi Saari
Ben Finney writes: > Hans Mulder writes: > >> Don't bother: Python comes with a free IDE named IDLE. > > And any decent Unix-alike (most OSen apart from Windows) comes with its > own IDE: the shell, a good text editor (Vim or Emacs being the primary > candidates), and a terminal multiplexor (suc

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-03 Thread Gisle Vanem
"Wayne Werner" wrote: Yep. That's how I feel. I had used ViEmu in Visual Studio for coding in .NET at work - but I found that the buffers & macros were more powerful. So now I do most of my programming in Vim, and only head to VS if I need autocomplete or some of it's auto-generation tools. L

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-02 Thread Mitya Sirenef
On 01/02/2013 10:17 PM, Wayne Werner wrote: On Tue, 1 Jan 2013, Mitya Sirenef wrote: On 01/01/2013 02:02 PM, Roy Smith wrote: That's true with Vim, as well, especially when I'm making a custom mapping and I can NEVER remember what some combination does, even though if I actually needed to use i

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-02 Thread Wayne Werner
On Tue, 1 Jan 2013, Ramchandra Apte wrote: On Friday, 28 December 2012 01:31:16 UTC+5:30, mogul wrote: 'Aloha! I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. Now it's python, and currently mainly on

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-02 Thread Wayne Werner
On Tue, 1 Jan 2013, Mitya Sirenef wrote: On 01/01/2013 02:02 PM, Roy Smith wrote: That's true with Vim, as well, especially when I'm making a custom mapping and I can NEVER remember what some combination does, even though if I actually needed to use it, it pops right out, so to find out, I have

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-02 Thread Wayne Werner
On Wed, 2 Jan 2013, Michael Torrie wrote: On 01/01/2013 11:43 AM, Mitya Sirenef wrote: Therefore, deleting 3 WORDs is 3daW (mnemonic: del a WORD 3 times). Interesting. I typically use just d3w. 3daW seems to delete 3 lines for me, the same result as d3. Another favorite command is d or c fo

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-02 Thread Mitya Sirenef
On 01/02/2013 04:33 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: On 01/01/2013 11:43 AM, Mitya Sirenef wrote: >> Therefore, deleting 3 WORDs is 3daW (mnemonic: del a WORD 3 times). > > Interesting. I typically use just d3w. 3daW seems to delete 3 lines > for me, the same result as d3. Another favorite command is

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-02 Thread Michael Torrie
On 01/01/2013 11:43 AM, Mitya Sirenef wrote: > Therefore, deleting 3 WORDs is 3daW (mnemonic: del a WORD 3 times). Interesting. I typically use just d3w. 3daW seems to delete 3 lines for me, the same result as d3. Another favorite command is d or c followed by a number and then the right arrow

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-02 Thread Matty Sarro
That's really a question for you - do you want the features of an IDE? Aptana includes pydev, and is built on eclipse which is a great swiss-army-knife IDE. If you like KISS, vim is an excellent choice. Go with whichever you are more comfortable using. On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Neil Cerutti

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-02 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2012-12-29, Roy Smith wrote: > emacs will parse that, highlight the filenames and line numbers > and if I type M-`, it'll take me to the line of the next error > (including opening the file if it's not already open). > > I assume other smart editors have similar capabilities. > Different tools

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-02 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2012-12-30, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > Stick with what you've been using for the last couple of > decades. These tools have stood the test of time for a good > reason: they're powerful, efficient and made for the task of > programming. There is a good Python plugin for Vim that will allow si

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-01 Thread Ramchandra Apte
On Friday, 28 December 2012 01:31:16 UTC+5:30, mogul wrote: > 'Aloha! > > > > I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix > alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. > > > > Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. > >

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-01 Thread jussij
FWIW on the Windows platform the Zeus IDE has support for Python: http://www.zeusedit.com/python.html Zeus does the standard Python syntax highlighting, code completion, smart indenting, class browsing, code folding etc. Zeus also has limited Python debugger support and is fully scriptable

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-01 Thread Mitya Sirenef
On 01/01/2013 02:02 PM, Roy Smith wrote: In article , > Mitya Sirenef wrote: > >> Clunky is the last word I'd use to describe it (ok maybe for Emacs :-) >> I probably remember about 200 commands, plus or minus, but a lot of them >> fit into a consistent scheme which makes them much easier to r

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-01 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Mitya Sirenef wrote: > Clunky is the last word I'd use to describe it (ok maybe for Emacs :-) > I probably remember about 200 commands, plus or minus, but a lot of them > fit into a consistent scheme which makes them much easier to remember At some point, it becomes muscle memory,

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-01 Thread Mitya Sirenef
On 12/31/2012 10:46 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 14:00:23 -0500, Mitya Sirenef wrote: > >> I think the general idea is that with editors like Vim you don't get >> distracted by having to do some kind of an editor task, letting you keep >> your full attention on the code logic.

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-01 Thread Tim Chase
On 01/01/13 04:12, Cameron Simpson wrote: I must admit I find Apple's "help" search box neat this way - you can type a keyword is it will actually find the menu item for you. Not that I use this for vi, of course... If you've not used it, Vim's ":helpgrep" command provides full Vim regexp powe

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2013-01-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 01Jan2013 03:46, Steven D'Aprano wrote: | On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 14:00:23 -0500, Mitya Sirenef wrote: | > [...] For instance, if I need to change | > a block inside parens, I type ci) (stands for change inside parens), | > while with a regular editor I'd have to do it manually and by the time | >

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-31 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 09:30:10 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> Absolutely! Though it's roughly as good to have the current cursor >> position shown in a status line somewhere, and takes up less real >> estate. But yes, vital to be able to se

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-31 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 09:30:10 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > Absolutely! Though it's roughly as good to have the current cursor > position shown in a status line somewhere, and takes up less real > estate. But yes, vital to be able to see that. Even when I'm sitting > *right next to* my boss and co

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-31 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 14:00:23 -0500, Mitya Sirenef wrote: > I think the general idea is that with editors like Vim you don't get > distracted by having to do some kind of an editor task, letting you keep > your full attention on the code logic. For instance, if I need to change > a block inside par

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-31 Thread xDog Walker
On Monday 2012 December 31 14:46, Ben Finney wrote: > “I bought some powdered water, but I don't know what to add.” Suggest to Stephen Wright to add hot coffee. -- Yonder nor sorghum stenches shut ladle gulls stopper torque wet strainers. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-31 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > Hans Mulder writes: > >> Don't bother: Python comes with a free IDE named IDLE. > > And any decent Unix-alike (most OSen apart from Windows) comes with its > own IDE: the shell, a good text editor (Vim or Emacs being the primary > candidates), a

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-31 Thread Ben Finney
Hans Mulder writes: > Don't bother: Python comes with a free IDE named IDLE. And any decent Unix-alike (most OSen apart from Windows) comes with its own IDE: the shell, a good text editor (Vim or Emacs being the primary candidates), and a terminal multiplexor (such as ‘tmux’ or GNU Screen). Lea

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-31 Thread Hans Mulder
On 31/12/12 12:57:59, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2012-12-27 at 12:01 -0800, mogul wrote: >> 'Aloha! >> I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained >> on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. >> Now it's python, and currently mainly on my

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-31 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2012-12-27 at 12:01 -0800, mogul wrote: > 'Aloha! > I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained > on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. > Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. > Do I really need a real IDE, as the

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-30 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
* Yuvraj Sharma [2012-12-28 01:37:23 -0800]: > Use IDLE > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > The OP is already a proficient C, C++, perl, ... hacker using console based tools and hardcore UNIX editors like vi(1) - I doubt he'll stay with IDLE for very long - once you'

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Tim Johnson wrote: > Along the way, I did use emacs as well and ended doing quite a bit > of elisping. elispsis. n. the intentional omission of unnecessary work which can be inferred by the editor; often indicated with three consecutive parentheses ((( ))) Chr

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Tim Johnson
* Grant Edwards [121229 10:02]: > On 2012-12-27, mogul wrote: > > > I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained > > on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. > > > > Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. > > > > Do I really

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Mitya Sirenef wrote: > On 12/29/2012 05:30 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >>> >>> "In the big for loop, a couple of lines down, no, not there, the other >>> >for loop, yeah, now go down a couple of lines, no that's too far, back >>> >up one. Yeah there. On that line,

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Mitya Sirenef
On 12/29/2012 05:30 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: "In the big for loop, a couple of lines down, no, not there, the other >for loop, yeah, now go down a couple of lines, no that's too far, back >up one. Yeah there. On that line, why do you ..." > >with: > >"On line 647, why do you ..." Absolutely!

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Roy Smith wrote: > In article , > Chris Angelico wrote: > >> It's extremely handy; not only errors from >> compilation/execution, but things like a 'git grep -n' fit too. > > Emacs has integrations with many version control systems. Over the > years, I've gone b

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Mitya Sirenef
On 12/29/2012 04:52 PM, Roy Smith wrote: "In the big for loop, a couple of lines down, no, not there, the other > for loop, yeah, now go down a couple of lines, no that's too far, back > up one. Yeah there. On that line, why do you ..." > > with: > > "On line 647, why do you ..." It's even be

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Chris Angelico wrote: > Auto-complete is handy, but not critical. You just wait until your finger joints get to be my age and tell me that auto-complete isn't critical :-) > It's extremely handy; not only errors from > compilation/execution, but things like a 'git grep -n' fit to

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Roy Smith wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: > [regarding >> Bracket matching >> Language-sensitive auto-indentation >> and automatically indents > > Yeah, what he said, plus syntax coloring. And keyword highlighting. > And autocompletion of variable names. Syntax c

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Monte Milanuk
On 12/29/2012 11:52 AM, Roy Smith wrote: Chris Angelico wrote: [regarding Bracket matching Language-sensitive auto-indentation and automatically indents Yeah, what he said, plus syntax coloring. And keyword highlighting. And autocompletion of variable names. I'll probably get dog-piled by

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Roy Smith
Monte Milanuk wrote: > > Maybe its because I'm still just a hobbyist when it comes to coding, but I > > spend far more time 'thinking' about what I'm doing than typing things in... If more "professional" programmers spent more time thinking and less type typing, the world would be a better place

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Mitya Sirenef
On 12/29/2012 12:44 PM, Monte Milanuk wrote: Maybe its because I'm still just a hobbyist when it comes to coding, but I spend far more time 'thinking' about what I'm doing than typing things in... so shaving a few seconds here and there are less important to me. I think the general idea is t

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-12-27, mogul wrote: > I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained > on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. > > Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. > > Do I really need a real IDE, as the windows guys around me s

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 4:44 AM, Monte Milanuk wrote: > Maybe its because I'm still just a hobbyist when it comes to coding, but I > spend far more time 'thinking' about what I'm doing than typing things in... > so shaving a few seconds here and there are less important to me. The value of a good

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-29 Thread Monte Milanuk
On 12/27/2012 12:01 PM, mogul wrote: I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. Do I really need a real IDE, as the windows guys around me say I do, or will vim, git, make and other standalone tools m

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Westley Martínez wrote: > I only use vim for everything. IDEs just seem to get in my way. I've just (like ten minutes ago) come across a perfect example of what makes an IDE useful. My mother maintains a collection of documents (book indexes, historical records,

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-28 Thread Westley Martínez
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:01:16PM -0800, mogul wrote: > 'Aloha! > > I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix > alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. > > Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. > > Do I really need a

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-28 Thread python培训
too much ide for python PyCharm PyDev(Eclipse) Pyscripter Sublime Text TextMate UliPad Vim for beginner best choiceidle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-28 Thread gst
Le jeudi 27 décembre 2012 21:01:16 UTC+1, mogul a écrit : > 'Aloha! > holà ! > > I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix > alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. > About same than me, though I had not to use/work with perl for new proj

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-28 Thread Kwpolska
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:01 PM, mogul wrote: > 'Aloha! Hello! > I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix > alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. You are already awesome, > Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. and

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Andrew Berg wrote: > On 2012.12.28 00:51, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: >> The benefit of the tmux client (terminal multiplexer) is that I can see >> all the screens at the same time and quickly switch between them. I >> believe Linux has screen(1) which does the same

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-28 Thread Andrew Berg
On 2012.12.28 00:51, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > The benefit of the tmux client (terminal multiplexer) is that I can see > all the screens at the same time and quickly switch between them. I > believe Linux has screen(1) which does the same thing. tmux is generally easily available for Linux, and

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-28 Thread Yuvraj Sharma
Use IDLE -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
* mogul [2012-12-27 12:01:16 -0800]: > 'Aloha! > > I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix > alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. > > Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. > > Do I really need a real IDE, as the

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:01:16 -0800, mogul wrote: > 'Aloha! > > I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on > unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. > > Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. > > Do I really need a real I

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Roy Smith
In article <50dcf145$0$24782$607ed...@cv.net>, "TommyVee" wrote: > Do I really need a real IDE, as the windows guys around me say I do, or will > vim, git, make and other standalone tools make it the next 20 years too for > me? You'll do fine with vim (or emacs, or whatever). You may find an

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread TommyVee
"mogul" wrote in message news:ea058e5c-518f-4210-b80e-49ae2baab...@googlegroups.com... 'Aloha! I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop.

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 7:01 AM, mogul wrote: > Do I really need a real IDE, as the windows guys around me say I do, or will > vim, git, make and other standalone tools make it the next 20 years too for > me? Welcome! No, you don't *need* an IDE. Some people like them and are the more producti

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 27Dec2012 12:01, mogul wrote: | I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained | on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. | | Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. | | Do I really need a real IDE, as the windows guys aroun

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Modulok
> 'Aloha! > > I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix > alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. > > Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. > > Do I really need a real IDE, as the windows guys around me say I do, or will >

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Michael Torrie
On 12/27/2012 02:25 PM, Tim Chase wrote: > Alas, one of the worst parts about programming in Python is that I > now find it hard to go back to any of the other languages that I > know. :-) Amen. I find myself wishing for a python-like language for programming Arduino boards. -- http://mail.pyth

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Michael Torrie
On 12/27/2012 01:01 PM, mogul wrote: > Do I really need a real IDE, as the windows guys around me say I do, > or will vim, git, make and other standalone tools make it the next 20 > years too for me? I've never ever used an IDE with Python. With Python I can code for an hour in vim and it runs wi

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Tim Chase
On 12/27/12 14:01, mogul wrote: > Do I really need a real IDE, as the windows guys around me say I > do, or will vim, git, make and other standalone tools make it the > next 20 years too for me? Coding Python (and before that C, Pascal, and even some VB in there) using vi/vim has worked for about

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:01:16 -0800, mogul wrote: > 'Aloha! > > I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on > unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. > > Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. > > Do I really need a real I

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Terry Reedy
On 12/27/2012 3:01 PM, mogul wrote: 'Aloha! I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. Do I really need a real IDE, as the windows guys arou

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Alister
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:01:16 -0800, mogul wrote: > 'Aloha! > > I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on > unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. > > Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. > > Do I really need a real I

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread peter
On 12/27/2012 05:01 PM, mogul wrote: 'Aloha! I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. Do I really need a real IDE, as the windows guys ar

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix > alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. > > Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. Welcome to the club! > Do I really need a real IDE, as the windows guys around me say I do,

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread ian douglas
Some would argue that vim is always good enough, especially with its plugin system. I bounce between vim and Sublime Text 2, and recently bought PyCharm went it went on sale a week ago. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread mogul
'Aloha! I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. Do I really need a real IDE, as the windows guys around me say I do, or will vim, git, ma