What's the best IDE?

[sjdevnull]

I've used Emacs for a long time, but I think I might be going back to
Vim 7.0 now that they improved the scripting functionality with *real*
arrays and dicts.

I've been writing all my extensions in python rather than vimscript for
several releases (occasionally it requires some elbow grease, e.g. I
submitted the fixes to let the python interface call functions
returning vim lists/dicts).

I hate to appeal to popularity, but Vim's
greater popularity also contributes to higher quality in a number of
cases

I'd guess emacs is at least a base-10 order of magnitude more popular
than vim for real development (excluding simple "it's already
installed" basic sysadmin stuff); emacs passed vi c. 1990 and hasn't
looked back.

I say that as a hardcore vim user--getting used to modality really
isn't for everyone, though once you do the payoff is high.

 

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte]

That's all I've ever needed vim to do with my Python code (apart from
the syntax highlighting, which works by default when I've tried it).


Should I start another thread about python-mode and how annoying it is?

Ben, as an Emacs guy tempted by Vim I'd definitely like to know what
you find annoying about python-mode, and how Vim does not annoy you
here. If this answer might risk leading the thread somewhere we don't
want, I'd anyway by very interested in a private email.

Best,

R.

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Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Statistical Computing Team
Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme
Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO)
http://ligarto.org/rdiaz

 

[ben.hamilton]

This is the answer

Linux
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BOA constructor
Eric (the best for python I think it has cool subversion support better
than emacs for non f4cmd67-b jockies emacs sucks anyway you look at it
and lisp is a terrible terrible bad joke unless you are gondi)
oh and some other tool for python glade/gtk widgetmaroo

Mac
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Xcode of course
TextMate


Windows
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who cares


Personally Eric3 wins for general purpose python code look it up why
did no one mention the best one?

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