[Tutor] Mac IDE

[Tim Johnson]

* Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> [110929 09:29]:
> On 29/09/11 12:50, Wayne Werner wrote:
> 
> >Two terminal windows - one with Vim, editing my Python scripts, and
> >another with an interactive interpreter....
> >
> >Of course these capabilities (and many many more) are available with Emacs.
> >
> >I personally recommend that you learn one (or both) of these editors.
> >They will highly improve the speed at which you are able to edit your code.
> 
> Unfortunately vim isn't available by default on MAcOS - at least not
> the last time I looked. They had elvis installed as a "vi".
> 
> But Emacs is there in console mode, I think you need to install X to
> get it in GUI mode - in which case you might as well install Emacs
> for Aqua...
 I just got a 2011 mac mini with the last OS ... time doesn't permit
 me to fire it up until tomorrow at the soonest, but I will report
 back on emacs and vim as defaults. A distribution call macvim is
 available and vim can also be custom built.
 cheers
-- 
Tim 
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