>> I've used vim in the past for python and recommend it for ease of >> use and support. > > I have to chuckle when you recommend Vim for ease of use.
Me too, and I've been a vi/elvis/viper/vim user for over 20 years(*). vi/vim could never be described as easy to learn, but... ... ease of use can mean ease of use once you have learned it. ie efficient. Now vim passes that test with flying colours. The guys who designed vi (Bill Joy the founder of Sun Microsystems was one of them) took the view that it should be easy for experts not novices since most programmers would rapidly progress beyond novice. One of the great features of vim is that once you grasp its design philosophy it is entirely consistent and you can often guess new commands without looking it up in the help. For those who want a tutorial that teaches the underlying vi philospohy as well as the basic commands I strongly recommend the vilearn package (sometimes called teachvi). It is a bash script so you need a bash shell to install it but GNU or cygwin bash will work on Windows. Its not pretty but its short and it works: http://www.houseofthud.com/vilearn.html (*) And I've been an emacs user for equally long, I like and use both for different things... Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
