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for python development, eclipse+pydev seem to be quite good. eclipse provides you with member function tab completion which is nice. I've never done any major python work, so I may be disswayed once I have many modules and lots of .py files composing my project. But for now, it's gotten me going quite nicely. Cheers. Steve. Jonathan Arnold wrote: > Stephen Adler wrote: > >> How many BLU'ers use IDE's like eclipse or just keep hacking code with >> emacs, (or vi?) issuing make commands in a separate terminal window or >> with the emacs internal compile command? I'm just wondering just how >> behind the times I am... >> > > Call me an "old dog" if you will, but I still do nearly all my coding via > Emacs. I've been using it for 20 years and I assume 20 years from now I'll > still be using it:-) Even on Windows, I much prefer Emacs to "Visual" Studio. > As mentioned, emacs lets me keep my hands on the keyboard, and I know it will > be around on any platform I use. Esp. given I write on Linux, BSD and Windows, > without it, I'd be lost. > > That being said, I do keep looking at IDEs. I found Eclipse, at least for C++ > programming a year or so ago, to be clumsy at best. For instance, it insisted > on adding every file in a folder to a project, which is silly. I have installed, > but not yet tried, KDevelop. I uses Komodo for a bit, for php & python programming, > and liked it, but not enough to jump in completely and pay for it. > > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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