jemfinch: I hate you, can you help me?

[Ben Briggs]

Well, just when I thought I was on the right track, you get me interested in Python again!

While trying to learning C++, I was reading through the LNO UBB, and came accross a post you wrote about Python. I checked out python.org, and I'm going to try to learn it this time (not just think about it).

Well, what I would like from you is... you to tell me how you develop in it.
Editor
Editor's tags
- Like for C/C++ there's :cindent in vim
etc.


Thanks in advance!

[ 24 February 2001: Message edited by: Ben Briggs ]

[jemfinch]

I use emacs to edit.

Yes, you'll find posts of me expounding the virtues of vim on this very board. :D I switched to emacs for three reasons: I like the extension model better than vim's (I like an embedded language). I also wanted to learn lisp, and surrounding myself with it (I also switched to sawfish as my windowmanager at the same time) would make that easier. Most importantly to this thread, however, I switched because emacs does python better than vim.

Most of the python illuminati use emacs to edit. Vim wouldn't handle proper indentation, and generally emacs just works much better than vim. Despite the keybindings (I prefer vi bindings, and I'll learn to use VIPER someday now...) emacs does a better job of being transparent when I'm writing python code.

You can find useful python emacs stuff here: http://python.org/emacs/ . (Note that you won't find a "vim goodies" on the python website -- that shows how thoroughly emacs has infiltrated the python camp :))

Jeremy