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  newbie question : gedit as an ide Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> - 2012-09-16 17:22 +0530
    Re: newbie question : gedit as an ide Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-09-17 00:14 +1000
    Re: newbie question : gedit as an ide Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-09-16 10:28 -0400

#29303 — newbie question : gedit as an ide

new to the group, a quick hello to all.  :-)
does anyone use gedit as an 'ide' for python development?
if yes, may i know the caveats against using 'idle', 'bpython', etc?

thank you.

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On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> wrote:
> new to the group, a quick hello to all.  :-)
> does anyone use gedit as an 'ide' for python development?
> if yes, may i know the caveats against using 'idle', 'bpython', etc?
>
> thank you.

I never really liked gedit; when I first switched my primary
development platform to Linux (from working on OS/2 and Windows), it
was an Ubuntu, and I felt that gedit was less than satisfactory. The
second GUI editor I tried was SciTE, which IMHO is distinctly
superior. Mainly, though, I don't use any sort of IDE per se; the only
"IDE-like" feature in my setup is SciTE's F7 key binding to run
'make', and then a properly-configured makefile in every directory
that I work in. Between that and a terminal window for git commands,
there's not really much more to look for in a development environment.

ChrisA

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On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> wrote:
> new to the group, a quick hello to all.  :-)
> does anyone use gedit as an 'ide' for python development?
> if yes, may i know the caveats against using 'idle', 'bpython', etc?

bpython isn't an IDE, it's a good interactive interpreter.

As for gedit as an editor... it's actually really bad, but fixable if
you install plugins. e.g., it doesn't have builtin support for case
sensitive / regexp search and so on, but these can be added so that
gedit becomes tolerable. In fact, one of gedit's main advantages over
many of its similar competitors (in particular I'm thinking of Kate)
is that the plugin support is very strong, so if it doesn't do what
you want, you can make it do what you want anyway.

So, install / enable plugins. Lots of them. Or use an editor designed
for programmers first, such as Kate or vim or emacs.

-- Devin

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