[Tutor] Optimally configuring Emacs for W7-64bit and Python

[Alan Gauld]

On 23/05/12 03:13, boB Stepp wrote:

> to Emacs, that provided things like code completion, etc. It was not
> clear to me if these would work with Windows

Yes, emavs is prettty much built on its own environment based on eLisp. 
So mostfeatures of emacs work regardless of OS etc. Its only where emacs 
integrates with the OS that differencews emerge. For example on Unix you 
can run a grep from emacs and then step through the results from inside 
emacs. Or if you compile a program the errors can be stepped through on 
Unix because the compilers conform to the standard  reporting format, 
but on windows compilers don't typically share an error format. So you 
have to do a lot more app specific config on Windows than with Unix.

> Now I just looked at winpdb and it states that it must have wxPython
> installed.

> 2.8.12.1. If the versions of wxPython parallels that of Python then
> this means that version 3.x won't be supported. Is this correct?

They don;t track Python version numbers but a quick look suggests that 
you are right there is no v3 version of wxPython yet. Which is 
surprising and I thought there was...

FWIW the mapping of release to Python version is here:

http://www.wxpython.org/download.php#stable

> it did mention that there was a console version of winpdb that did not
> require wxPython, but would this be what you intended for me, Alan?

Nope, it was the GUI version. I've never tried the console version, its 
probably worth a go since the native Python pdb debugger is a bit 
primitive! OTOH using a debugger with Python is a relatively rare event, 
simple print statements and the >>> prompt usually suffice.

> The Solaris at work is Solaris 8 and has many GUI-based apps, but I am
> forced to use whatever is on the computers.

Ah, ok, for some reason I thought you only had ssh access. I must be 
getting my threads crossed :-)


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Alan G
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