Okay. Since I first joined this list I have played around (as time permitted) with these editors/IDEs: PyCharm, Eclipse with PyDev, Notepad++, Emacs, IDLE, PyScripter, IdleX, Sublime Text, and possibly others. Of course, I have far from mastered any of them, but I think that I have a sense of what each is capable of plus an idea of their quirks/bugs. I have found that I do not entirely like any of them. I suppose that is normal. Of the above list I like Notepad++, PyCharm and Emacs the best. I have decided to eliminate Notepad++ due to it being tied entirely to Windows and that it does not have the power of Emacs. I liked PyCharm enough that when a special Earth Day sale came out, I purchased a license for it. Eventually, I think that I will gravitate to this if I start creating truly large projects, but I cannot use it at work. And it seems to be overkill for just beginning in Python. And I don't like the idea of creating a project for what amounts to one-off scripts.
So I am led to Emacs. I like the ability to keep my fingers on the keyboard for almost everything I might want to do. And PyCharm has an ever-improving Emacs keybinding mode for when I do start using it. It SHOULD be available at work on the two Solaris 10 systems I do most of my work on, but I found out today that while the binary for Emacs exists on both systems, not all of the dependencies are installed. However, I am hoping to get permission to install a fresh, latest, greatest version of Emacs on these systems, but even if I don't Googling has revealed that Emacs can edit remote files via something called Tramp. So it looks like I could install Emacs on my Windows PC at work and edit from there. Likewise at home I am on Windows 7-64 bit Pro and have already installed GNU Emacs 24.3. When I last mentioned Emacs there was at least one offer to help me optimally configure Emacs for Python development on Windows. I am currently using version 3.3. This does not appear straightforward to me. When I Google for this topic, people have taken different approaches and I do not have the background or experience to judge which would work best for me. Additionally this latest version of Emacs apparently has made some improvements to the Python.el mode and it is not clear to me what suggestions will or will not work with this. Anyone care to help me with this? As always, thanks! boB _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
