Editors for Macintosh

[Chris Reed]

>In article <379CB0C8.FA84F91C at callware.com>, Ivan Van Laningham
><ivanlan at callware.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All--
>> Are there any other good editors (i.e., Python-aware) besides Alpha out
>> there for the Macintosh?  I don't want to _use_ one, I just want to know
>> if there are any that people recommend.
>
>I use BBEdit on the Mac and do to the fact that there is no syntax
>colouring mode for python I've mapped the ending "py" to Tcl syntax
>colouring.
>
>BBEdit does it's job very well because I can save the Python-Files as
>"Python Files" so they run by double click ;-) (Non Mac Users won't
>understand that I suppose :o)
>
>I don't use the IDE very often because I mostly deal with Tkinter on the
>Mac too, but if you don't need that the IDE will be a very good choice
>also.

I remember hearing rumours that the next major release of BBEdit will
include much more powerful syntax colouring capabilities, possibly with user
editing. The reason for such limited support in the current versions is that
each language is hard-coded into the (Object Pascal!) source code and thus
very hard extend.

Just rumours, of course, but I learned much of this from talking with the
author a couple of years ago while trying to convince him that he needed to
provide hooks so we could support our company's web scripting language.

-chris