[Pythonmac-SIG] FAQ item

[Israel C. Evans]

I would love for the PythonIDE to have Syntax coloring..
The lack of it was the only reason I started down the long path towards 
becoming familiar with emacs.

The IDE didn't have syntax coloring, Pythoncard's editor while 
wonderful was also quite unstable on my machine for some reason, so I 
eventually found my way to Jedit which is also amazing, but with large 
files became extremely slow.  Since I could never get my head around 
the mode switching of Vi and Vim, I set down to learn emacs.  Now I'm 
quite comfortable with it, but I've had to give up the wonderful popups 
that appear when I'm typing a class or a function that is part of 
python or has been created in the file as Code Editor or Idle does.  
And I don't get the nice integration of the python documentation and 
such, but at least it works and gives my code pretty colors.

It's amazing to me that with all the wonderful benefits that the 
PythonIDE offers, I'm uncomfortable using it just because my code 
doesn't come in full color.  I think I must be terribly spoiled.


~Israel~



On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 05:14  AM, Arthur Elsenaar wrote:

> Hi,
>
> new to MacPython and have an obvious item for the new FAQ.
>
> Q: Why doesn't the PythonIDE have syntax coloring? Do you plan to add 
> it in a future release?
> A:
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arthur
>
>
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~Israel~