What text editor is everyone using for Python

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand
Fri May 29 05:45:13 EDT 2009


In message <003b3d8c$0$9673$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano 
wrote:

> On Fri, 29 May 2009 14:00:19 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> In message <003af57e$0$9673$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Fri, 29 May 2009 09:04:39 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> 
>>>> In message <003a5518$0$9673$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, Steven
>>>> D'Aprano wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, 28 May 2009 20:58:07 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> In message <0039e83c$0$9673$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, Steven
>>>>>> D'Aprano wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> A good UI standard should mean that:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> * all functionality should be discoverable without reading the
>>>>>>> manual;
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Which means no scripting languages are allowed?
>>>>> 
>>>>> "Should", not "must".
>>>> 
>>>> If you meant "may or may not", why don't you say "may or may not"?
>>> 
>>> "Should" does not mean "may or may not".
>> 
>> I'm not sure how there is supposed to be a difference in this context.
>> "All people should fly by flapping their arms, except where this is
>> physically impossible". You're asking for something that is infeasible
>> with most current editors, if not all of them.
> 
> On the remote chance that you're not trolling, I deny that
> discoverablity is "infeasible" ...

On the remote chance you're not trolling, let me point out politely that it 
is for scriptability.




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