Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Neil Cerutti Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough? Date: 2 Jan 2013 18:43:56 GMT Organization: Norwich University Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net gN8WTsS2W9JaWIXWUtLKswpLQN460+6CIUW0ONMh6NPQ+WdwvksrysJAtbs7Md2uBK Cancel-Lock: sha1:ENIaXOCPa7jJ6NOEZPEWsJHIIfI= User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1/mm/ao (Win32) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:36004 On 2012-12-29, Roy Smith wrote: > emacs will parse that, highlight the filenames and line numbers > and if I type M-`, it'll take me to the line of the next error > (including opening the file if it's not already open). > > I assume other smart editors have similar capabilities. > Different tools have different combinations of these, or > slightly different implementations. Find one you like and > learn all of it's capabilities. It makes a huge difference in > how productive you are. I used that power all the time writing C and C++ code. It felt indespensable. But even though I can do the same with Python, it doesn't feel crucial when writing Python. The errors are more few. ;) -- Neil Cerutti