[OT] SciTE configuration for Python help [WAS] Re: what editor do you use?

[Brian van den Broek]

Jon Perez said unto the world upon 02/07/2004 16:18:

> SciTE is the editor I have been looking for all these
> years.
> 
> I use it for everything these days (Python, Spyce, PHP,
> Java, C#, C/C++, etc...) except when I have to work from
> a command line terminal in which case I use vim.
> 
> The thing with SciTE is that most of the powerful features
> are neatly tucked away until you enable them so it may
> look deceptively spartan at first.
> 
> Some of the highlights:
> 
> * The code folding is superb - it even folds HTML!
> * rectangular highlighting is as easy as ALT-mouse drag
> * only editor I know of which syntax highlights Javascript,
>   HTML + PHP or Python simultaneously - in the same file!
> * Can call external utilities.  I use it with Astyle and
>   HTML Tidy.  One click reformatting of source code.
> * No compulsory learning of a whole bunch of convoluted
>   key-combinations
> * powerful regex search and replace
> * pretty wide support for syntax-highlighting different
>   languages (can write your own lexer)
> * so much more...
> 

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Hi all,

this is about SciTE rather than Python, but I'm hopeful that the [OT] 
warning and the recent discussion of SciTE on this thread make that OK. 
Apologies if not.

On the strength of a few posts to the now-highjacked thread I grabbed 
SciTE. It looks very promising. I know from reading the docs and looking 
at the config files that I should be able to configure it so that, when 
editing a .py file, F1 opens the Python documentation and passes the word 
at the caret as an argument. The problem is I don't know enough to be able 
to correctly interpret the docs instructions (I am not a hacker ;-) Could 
a SciTE fan tell me what I have to add to my config files?

Many thanks,

Brian vdB