[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: IDE recommendation

Lee Cullens lee_cullens at mac.com
Wed Apr 6 20:04:23 CEST 2005


Thanks Kevin,

I've got bookmarks on it, Pydev and Wing, but for now am using the 
basics until I "really" need more.

Lee C


On Apr 6, 2005, at 11:59 AM, Kevin Dangoor wrote:

> On Mar 31, 2005 2:52 AM, Lee Cullens <lee_cullens at mac.com> wrote:
>> TextWrangler is (to me) too much like its big brother - a do-all
>> "develop it yourself" sandbox.  Great if that's what your into, but a
>> sidetrack to me.  For the moment I'll stick with the simpler
>> SubEthaEdit which I can even use in Terminal (instead of Pico).
>> Besides I liked "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" (origin of Sub
>> Etha) - was it the late 70's or the 80's they serialized it on PBS 
>> (I'm
>> forgetting too much)?
>
>  I've become fond of TextMate lately. It's a fairly new editor and is
> missing some features, but what it does it does well. It has good
> project organization and makes it easy to switch between files in your
> project. The really spiffy thing, though, is that it is very easily
> extended via Unix filters. So, you can make filters that do anything
> to your text in any language (eg Python) and have the result pop back
> into your buffer. There are a fair number of add-ons available already
> (because of how easy it is to extend), but they're only accessible via
> a Subversion repository at the moment.
>
> TextMate is $39, which is infinitely more than free, but considerably
> less than BBEdit.
>
> Kevin
>



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