Re: [pygame] recommendation for a good n00b IDE

["Patrick Mullen" <saluk64007@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 9:48 AM, yanom @linuxmail.org
<yanom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> both scite and geany are terrible for python, in my opinion.

I keep coming back to SciTE myself after trying just about everything
else.  I use vim occasionally, but SciTE tends to get out of my way
the most.  How is it "terrible for python" exactly?  Or do you just
think it's terrible period?  That would make a little more sense.  One
thing that has saved me numerous times for instance, is convert to
tabs.  I get something that uses indentation of 2, which doesn't fit
my preferred indentation of 4, I tabify it, and indentify it in two
clicks.  It has the same basic folding, paren and quote matching etc
that everything else has.  It has autocomplete if you want it
(although I can't stand autocomplete).  It runs the program in a
separate process, and any freeze can be killed (emergency break you
mentioned).  It's NOT an ide, it lacks debugging (although there might
be some extensions for that) and project management features (probably
an extension for that too) but as an editor it works really well.

I suppose if you HAVE to have an ide, it won't work for you.  But
terrible?  That's a bit far.

Anyway, I haven't seen any mention of Editra.  It's pretty new, but
seems like it stands toe to toe pretty well with other ides.  It even
has a vi mode which is pretty cool.