Juan Christian <juan0christ...@gmail.com> writes: > What [text editor] do you guys use to code?
I use GNU Emacs primarily, and sometimes Vim. My recommendations have been posted in a different forum; I'll repeat them here. You can write Python code using any text editor. You will do well to use a text editor which is deliberately designed for programming and other related editing tasks. I would also recommend that a programmer's text editor should: * Be licensed as free software — the tool should be able to be improved and maintained and distributed to you by any party sufficiently motivated, not locked up by any single party. * Work the same on all major platforms — you should not need to abandon a tool you like merely because you switch to a different machine for a while. * Be mature with a strong track record — a text editor which has been around for some decades, and still has a large following, has demonstrated it can survive many different trends in programming tools. * Have good support provided by its own vibrant community — you don't necessarily need to join such a community, but you will greatly benefit from the fact that a tool has robust community support. That the tool is free software is a significant contributor to this. * Be indefinitely customisable to meet new needs — this ensures that anyone sufficiently motivated can allow you to use the tool you already know for new tasks that come along. Having a strong community of support will mean that most tasks are already supported in the tool by people who came before you. * Properly support many programming languages and related formats — this is an outcome of the tool being community-supported, mature, and highly customisable. The tool should, in its standard installation, already support major programming languages and formats, and have a simple way to add supporting plug-ins as you need them. I know of two obvious text editors that meet these criteria: * Vim <URL:http://www.vim.org/> <URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_%28text_editor%29> * Emacs <URL:https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/> <URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs> If you're using a *nix style operating system such as GNU+Linux, you will have both of these available for installation from the operating system. On other desktop operating systems you can install them easily too. I hope that helps. Familiarising yourself with a strong, free-software, cross-platform text editor is an essential investment in programming. Good hunting! -- \ “Faith is generally nothing more than the permission religious | `\ people give to one another to believe things strongly without | _o__) evidence.” —Sam Harris, _Letter to a Christian Nation_ 2006 | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
