Yeah. But she's running Windows. Perhaps vim is scary to some Windows users. (I thought it was scary and annoying. Are all those ~ characters really in the file or not? I kept second guessing the editor.)
--Sara, could you give an example of how it doesn't work? Just what happens? Just what doesn't happen? You say you have Python 2.3 installed... > Greetings, > > I use an editor called 'vim' on GNU/Linux. > I invoke vim on the command-line by typing: vi > (vi is a link to /usr/bin/vim) > In my home directory I have a vim config file > named .vimrc (that is: dot_vimrc [the dot makes it hidden]). > The .vimrc file has some things in it that do some nice stuff > for editing Python files; such as syntax highlighting, line numbers, > indenting, and also runs Python when I press the F2 function key. > I run vim in an X ternminal called Konsole. I can also run it > from the command-line in any tty. > > Okay, here it is. Just copy/paste this into an editor, and save it as: > .vimrc > > -------------8<------Cut Here-------->8--------------- > " .vimrc > " > " Created by Jeff Elkner 23 January 2006 > " Last modified 2 February 2006 > " > " Turn on syntax highlighting and autoindenting > syntax enable > filetype indent on > " set autoindent width to 4 spaces (see > " http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=83) > set nu > set et > set sw=4 > set smarttab > " Bind <f2> key to running the python interpreter on the currently active > " file. (curtesy of Steve Howell from email dated 1 Feb 2006). > map <f2> :w\|!python %<cr> > -------------8<------Cut Here-------->8--------------- > > To use it, just type: vi myCode.py > (If you don't have a link named vi that points to /usr/bin/vim, > you'll have to type vim or /usr/bin/vim to get it going... > since I don't have any idea what you're working at, I can't say.) > > Once you're in vim, looking at your code, press F2 to run it. > > I understand that Emacs also does Python! =) > But I won't go there... I don't do Emacs. > -- > bhaaluu at gmail dot com > > On 7/17/07, Luke Paireepinart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A lot of Python programmers >> use Vi for writing their code. do you have access to that through SSH? >> I'm not quite sure what you mean by "SSH editor." >> -Luke >> _______________________________________________ >> Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >> > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
