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

[Brian van den Broek]

Neil Hodgson said unto the world upon 03/07/2004 05:30:
> Brian van den Broek:
> 
> 
>>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?
> 
> 
>    There is a SciTE mailing list at
> http://mailman.lyra.org/mailman/listinfo/scite-interest
> 
>    You can try to set your properties similar (based on where you have
> installed Python) to
> 
> command.help.*.py=$(CurrentWord)!G:\Python23\Doc\Python23.chm
> command.help.subsystem.*.py=4
> 
>    Most of the time this needs a separate press of the Enter key or
> selection from a list of topics after the documenation has been activated.
> 
>    Neil

Thanks Neil, that worked like a charm. (I had tried the elements, but 
didn't have the correct grammar for combining them.)

And, assuming that you are the same N. Hodgson, thanks for making SCiTE 
available, too!

Best to all,

Brian vdB