Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!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 17:19:09 -0500 Organization: Castle Amber Lines: 27 Message-ID: <87oc45lu02.fsf@castleamber.com> References: <1302964745.2751.3.camel@cristian-desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net fGwd/hDcMMYpFOArYzhC+A4TJ2PQDS+g0u0zdd+3fP2DSUD7v1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:b9nvpVUglonnt3D0m/y0EUBXhSs= sha1:DNZMq2aI7qlkOIPlKX1RMgrJt6E= 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:3351 rusi writes: > On Apr 16, 9:13 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: >> Based on the comments here, it seems that emacs would have to be the >> editor-in-chief for programmers. I currently use SciTE at work; is it >> reasonable to, effectively, bill my employer for the time it'll take >> me to learn emacs? > > It takes a day or two to learn emacs. That's an extremely bold statement. I still haven't learned Emacs and have read most of the Emacs manual, some parts twice. Unless you mean openening a file, saving a file, and some basic cursor movements. > It takes forever to set it up. If you mean to make work optimally for your way of editing, probably true. You can keep fine tuning, adding/testing stuff, etc. -- John Bokma j3b Blog: http://johnbokma.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/j.j.j.bokma Freelance Perl & Python Development: http://castleamber.com/