A survey of Python IDEs - Summary (Long)
Brian Kelley
bkelley at wi.mit.edu
Mon Aug 27 10:48:41 EDT 2001
Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>As for my personal preferences - since I was forced to learn XEmacs around
>March, I've grown accustomed to it, and use it for Python, C++, Java, sgml
>and html editing... And I do start Qt Designer from XEmacs to design dialog
>windows ;-).
>
I have to agree with this. I generally use glade or Qt Designer to
generate xml stubs for GUI's and write the controller code in xemacs. By
the way xemacs for windows works like a champ as well, xemacs for any
MAC OS before OS X is painful and I don't recommend it.
Perhaps the best reason is that xemacs starts a new python process
during every run so you don't have to worry about reloading modified
modules. Quiting a locked up GUI is as easy as hitting ctrl-G a couple
of times. The turn around time for development is pretty staggeringly
fast. Easily on par with any combined IDE I have ever used (which isn't
much actually)
Of course the learning curve for emacs/xemacs is pretty staggeringly slow :)
Brian Kelley
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
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