Juan, Besides Kwrite, I actually use the tools that the others mentioned so far, although I don't use Emacs often at all (perhaps I have just not found an advantageous use for it yet). So no real added info here, but I will say that I've not personally ran into any problems with Sublime.
For Windows, if you must continue to use it, I can venture to suggest you give Notepad++ a whirl for a text editor. I have used it on a handful of occasions and it _generally_ seemed okay enough to keep it in mind for a rainy day, such as right now. As for PyCharm, I have 0 experience with that so I can't offer any suggestions. On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote: > On 01Sep2014 11:13, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> >> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 09:12:24PM -0300, Juan Christian wrote: >>> >>> I've been using PyCharm to code in Python but it seems a bit >>> "overpowered" >>> for this task, and there are some annoying bugs. I used Sublime Text 2 in >>> the past, but it seems to be dead now (last update was JUN/2013), so I >>> don't really know any good options. >>> >>> What do you guys use to code? > > [...] >> >> You don't say what operating system you're using. I use Linux, and as >> far as I am concerned, the best IDE for Linux is Linux itself: [...] >> >> http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/series/unix-as-ide/ >> >> http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/ide-culture-vs-unix-philosophy/ > > > I'm mostly on OSX, but of course that is a UNIX platform as well:-) So my > IDE is somewhat like Steven's. BTW, there are many many discussions in the > python-list archives on the various development environments people use. > > >> My IDE is: >> >> - A good programmer's editor, ideally one that supports a tabbed >> interface. I normally use kate (from KDE 3, not KDE 4) or geany, or >> at a pinch kwrite although it's not tabbed. > > > I'm a vim user, and use it for everything (email, programming, any other > plain text editing). I've been using vi since, um, maybe 1985, and my > fingers know it. Of course, I use emacs editing keystrokes (a very limited > subset of it, anyway) in interactive shells, including the Python > interactive prompt; it is better in that scenario for me because it is > modeless - vi is modal, which I find a win for coding. > > I don't use tabs or subwindows/panes in the editor. I do use tabs in the > terminal (and my editor runs in a pane in my terminal). > > >> - A web browser, for looking up documentation and doing web searches. > > > Me too. And I find it very useful to have local copies of the Python doco on > my desktop; accessing a local copy is really fast and also works when > offline. I keep a local copy of the latest Python 2 and Python 3 doco to > hand. This does rely on the doco having a good page size choice; I like a > "page" to be a chapter. The Python doco does this well, a "page" per module. > By contrast, the PostgreSQL doco is extremely finely sliced and very > irritating to browse. > > I use tabs heavily in the web browser. > > >> - A good tabbed terminal application. Konsole from KDE is my >> preferred choice, but just about any one will do. > > > On OSX the winning choice is iTerm2; I use it exclusively. Tabs and also > subpanes. It has many good features. > > >> In the terminal, I'll open anything up to half a dozen tabs. One for >> running source control (git or hg) and other utilities, another for >> running the application I'm writing and performing tests, and at least >> one interactive Python session for trying out small snippets and looking >> up interactive help. > > > I use a tab per dev environment. (So a tab for my main project, and I use > another tab for whichever of its branches I'm working in.) > > Within each tab I usually split the tab into 3 vertical panes: an editor in > the middle )terminal running vim, for me) and a shell on either side. I open > python interactive prompts at need as opposed to Steven's always-open > instance. On occasions I split the vertical panes horizontally when I need > an extra terminal for something short term. > > >> Just recently, I've customised my interactive Python with a powerful set >> of tab completion commands, similar to that provided by IPython. While >> typing, if I hit tab, it will try to complete the current variable, >> function, module or file name. I don't know how I programmed without it >> all these years :-) > > > I must try that sometime. > > Cheers, > Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> > > Baldrick: Sir, what shall we do if we stand on a mine? > Edmund: Well, Baldrick - I think the common practice is to jump several > metres > into the air, and scatter yourself in a wide radius on the way down. > - _Blackadder_ > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
