[Pythonmac-SIG] What is Your Favorite Text Editor?

[Kevin Altis]

Well since every other possibility is being plugged, I guess I'll 
mention my own "dog food", the PythonCard codeEditor. Here's the 
slightly out-of-date Windows screenshots and readme.txt

http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/codeEditor.html

PythonCard needed its own standalone editor environment and the first 
version only took 15 minutes to write, so I got in the habit of using 
it day to day while I tinkered with it. Since all the hard stuff is 
done by the Scintilla engine, the source is relatively small and it 
works on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, so as I switch back and forth 
between machines I don't get lost; Emacs and vim of course are quite 
fine, but personally I can't deal with them except in short bursts. The 
main thing that I couldn't live without now that I got used to it with 
the codeEditor is the built-in shell and the exposed editor API which 
allows you to write and save Python "scriptlets" or just code some up 
on the fly in the shell.

BBEdit, SubEthaEdit, and other Mac-specific editors are fine. Frankly, 
which editor you use depends so much on what your past experience is, 
what keystroke commands are burned into your brain, whether you work on 
multiple platforms regularly, need a built-in debugger, etc. In the 
end, you just have to try various editors and IDEs and see which ones 
fit your brain.

http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/PythonEditors

ka
On Apr 9, 2004, at 3:13 PM, Jason Van Anden wrote:

> In the land of Windows where I am from, I use TextPad for most of my 
> coding.  I have been told to use VIM for coding on OSX.  I can totally 
> appreciate the power of keystrokes over drag and drop, etc...   but I 
> am impatient with the learning curve, for now.  Besides GVIM, and 
> suggestions?
>
> Jason