[Tutor] recommended IDE for windows?

[Bill Mill]

Rene,

To get syntax highlighting (even in most of your config files! it
highlights damn near anything recognizable) just type "syntax on" at
the command prompt. Check out the FAQ -
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/vimfaq.html .

Peace
Bill Mill
bill.mill at gmail.com


On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:09:29 -0400, Rene Lopez <renx99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I actually use Vim to do most of my config file editing and such...
> never tried it for writing more than simple scripts, as it doesn't
> seem to be configured at the moment for fancy things like syntax
> highlighting and such.  I suppose I should get around to learning it a
> bit better... so i can at least do more than just simple editing of
> files.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:05:46 -0400, Bill Mill <bill.mill at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I'm gonna be the stodgy old man and second Mike's suggestion of
> > Vim/Emacs. I prefer Vim personally (It is the editor to rule all
> > editors!) but many prefer Emacs. Both editors are cross-platform to
> > *everything*, so you almost never have to leave your editor behind.
> > Furthermore, both have plugins for *everything* under the sun - syntax
> > coloring, CVS uploading, etc etc.
> >
> > There are a lot of advantages to being good at a particular text
> > editor; I find it comes in handy all the time. It sucks to learn, but
> > boy is it useful once you get over the hump.
> >
> > Peace
> > Bill Mill
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:50:45 -0600, Mike Hansen <mhansen at cso.atmel.com> wrote:
> > > A lot of people like Scite. I fired it up, but haven't played with it much.
> > >
> > > I have used Activestate's Komodo. It's not free. The personal edition is
> > > something like $30. The professional edition is around $250-$300. There
> > > are some really neat features like background syntax checking and code
> > > folding.
> > >
> > > Another editor/IDE I want to look into is Eclipse. Pydev is a plug-in
> > > for it. I'm kind of in the wait and see mode on this one.
> > >
> > > I've said this before..., you might take a look at emacs or vim. They
> > > have a steep learning curve, but they run on multiple platforms, so you
> > > don't have to learn a new editor when you are on Solaris or Linux. The
> > > point of emacs and vim is to keep your hands on the keyboard which
> > > supposedly makes you more productive. I'm digging into vim more and
> > > more. I tried emacs three times, and it didn't click with me. YMMV.
> > > Although vim doesn't have tabs, it has buffers, and you can display a
> > > buffer list. There are plenty of ways to configure emacs and vim do work
> > > mostly the way you want.
> > >
> > > I sometimes use JEdit for working on HTML since it does a great job of
> > > auto-completing tags for you. It think it also does syntax highlighting
> > > for Python.
> > >
> > > There's a list of editors at the Python web
> > > site.(http://www.python.org/moin/PythonEditors)
> > > You can also search this list for earlier discussions on editors/IDEs.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Rene Lopez wrote:
> > >
> > > >anyone have any recommendations for a good IDE for python on windows?
> > > >Preferably free if possible :)  So far I've been using idle, which
> > > >works but seems pretty basic, would be nice to have some sort of IDE
> > > >with tabs instead of multiple windows....helps keep the desktop clean
> > > >;-)
> > > >
> > > >
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> 
> --
> 
> Rene
>