On 07/15/2010 07:13 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Oleg Broytman<p...@phd.pp.ru> wrote:
Sorry for being a wet blanket but vim implements tabbed windows even in
console (text) mode. (-:
Oh, I know vim and emacs are actually incredibly powerful once you
learn how to use them. I'm just a child of the GUI generation and
believe UIs should be readily discoverable in accordance with
http://xkcd.com/627/. I've tried to apply that technique to both
applications in the past and failed miserably (although I will admit I
haven't had the inclination to even try to use either of them for
years now). Neither really strikes me as just a text editor, but more
a way of life ;)
Anyway, to bring this back on topic...
Neither Kate nor Notepad++ allow you to easily move documents between
windows (you have to open them explicitly in the second window). I had
never noticed the lack until I explicitly checked for it after
Stephen's last email. I suspect whether you consider this a must have
feature or not depends greatly on your personal workflow when coding.
If IDLE were to adopt a tabbed view without easy migration between
separate windows, it would have plenty of company.
My preference would to just have two tabs and/or panes per window. One for
the source listing and one for the command interface.
It's easy enough to have multiple idle windows open and cut and copy
between them. The file window could have an "open in new window" option
which would start a new idle instance.
That keeps things simple and would be easy enough to understand by the
majority of new/novice to computer/programming users.
It also avoid having the command window shared by multiple programs which
could cause all sorts of messy output or errors if multiple scripts are
being run at the same time.
Ron
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