IDE+hg

[rustom]

On Nov 24, 8:13 pm, Richard Riley <rileyrg... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Gerhard Häring <g... at ghaering.de> writes:
> > Rhodri James wrote:
> >> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:20:27 -0000, NiklasRTZ <nikla... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>> Dear experts,
> >>> Since no py IDE I found has easy hg access. IDEs PIDA and Eric claim
> >>> Mercurial support not found i.e. buttons to clone, commit and push to
> >>> repositories to define dev env dvcs, editor and deployment all in 1.
>
> >> I don't really understand this urge to cram everything into a single
> >> program, since that inevitably leads to compromises that will
> >> compromise
>
> Huh? Cram what? Nothing is crammed into anything. The IDE/Editor is
> merely programmed to hook into the external tools
>
> >> just how much of Mercurial's useful and interesting functionality you
> >> can get at.  Still, if you really must, Emacs (and presumably vim) seems
> >> to be capable of working with most source control systems.
>
> > I prefer the commandline tools, too.
>
> > FWIW, Eclipse supports Mercurial through
> >http://www.vectrace.com/mercurialeclipse/
>
> > -- Gerhard
>
> Why would you prefer the command line tools in a shell when the same
> tools can be used in a way which makes navigating the output so much
> easier? It strikes me as a kind of intransigence. it's a common
> misconception that IDEs use their own tools all the time. They
> don't. They integrate the very same tools. e.g Why the hell would I drop
> to a command line to diff a file with a back version in GIT when I can
> do the same in the buffer in emacs with a single hot key? Why would I
> pipe the output of compile into a file then open that file when a single
> hot key can fire off the SAME compiler and then list the errors in an
> emacs buffer and another hot key can take me directly to the source
> lines in question? Living in the past has its mements, but really.
>
> e.g I have pylint working live in python buffers. Big time
> saver. Similar with C.

I sometimes think that the amount of time I spend tweaking emacs to
save my time is more than the time I spend on anything else :-)

But more seriously:
I tried to use emacs with git recently -- it was a sorry experience.
The git.el that comes with git is broken (on windows)
vc was too old for git like systems
dvc is a joke (its supposedly generic for all Distributed Version
Systems -- but everything is couched in terms of tla.
TLA! For heavens sake!
magit would not run on windows and to use egg http://github.com/bogolisk/egg
I must read magit docs.
Finally I decided to stay with what Ive used for the last 25 years --
the shell