On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Brian van den Broek <brian.van.den.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> These are close to religious questions :-) > > With you polyglot agenda, I would say you would be much better off to learn > a powerful multipurpose editor well than to try to find the best of breed of > each class of special purpose tool. > > There are three basic choice: emacs, vi or vim, and everything else. There > is widespread, though not uniform, consensus that The One True Editor is one > of emacs and vi. After that, the rest is flamewars. > > I am an emacist, myself. But some of my best friends are vimists. I gather, then, that you feel my time would be well-spent now to learn a good editor/IDE now, rather than continue with IDLE? I did not intend to start a holy war on the best editor/IDE with my questions! ~(:>)) But since you brought it up, I'll ask a somewhat more general question: Why do you prefer an editor instead of a graphical IDE? I have limited experience with Emacs as I finally installed it on my PC at work to avoid having Windows-style end-of-line characters messing up my scripts which were to run in an UNIX environment. I can see potential there, but as my future projects get larger and more involved will it be able to do everything I would want it to do? Would I find myself wanting a full-fledged IDE? I don't have enough technical knowledge to answer these questions right now. Your thoughts? Cheers! boB _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
