Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: John Bokma Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Python IDE/text-editor Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:20:53 -0500 Organization: Castle Amber Lines: 24 Message-ID: <87k4etltx6.fsf@castleamber.com> References: <1302964745.2751.3.camel@cristian-desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: individual.net pT8mOYsyLUyYI1F7Tb8stwyuSeog4ISLIo/5oZ09AFjGF5usfG Cancel-Lock: sha1:cOCYlkc7WKWWmjm0MTImcpBQBmo= sha1:svbZI+pn3lY1xcURP6NTFSIqRfM= X-Url: http://johnbokma.com/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:3352 Chris Angelico writes: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Andrea Crotti > wrote: >> That of course is an issue, but since you code in many languages I think >> is really a pretty good investment for your future. >> >> And I don't think that you would be unproductive the first weeks with >> emacs, just a bit slower maybe, and it's not that you can't use anything >> else in the meanwhile... > > Sure, that was a *slight* exaggeration :) but thanks for the advice. > I'll poke around with it some time. I tried that several times over years, and never worked. What did the trick for me was just switching to Emacs, and read the GNU Emacs Manual thoroughly and making notes. And the next day try what I read the day before. -- John Bokma j3b Blog: http://johnbokma.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/j.j.j.bokma Freelance Perl & Python Development: http://castleamber.com/