>In particular, options/tweaks that make drpython more useful
> to zope programmers would be rather nice.
> Any ideas?
>
vim/emacs keybindings would be a start. Most Zope programmers I know use either vim or emacs. I use emacs, and I'm mentally wedded to its weird keybindings from years of torment. For example, I always press (believe it or not) "Ctrl-X 5 2" to open a new window, and I cut and paste text using a combination of "ctrl-spacebar" (begin marking text) "alt-w" (stop marking text and copy selection to the cut buffer) and "ctrl-y" (yank text from the cut buffer and paste it into the document at the cursor position). This is obviously much different than your normal use-the-mouse-to-select, ctrl-x-to-cut, ctrl-c-to-copy, ctrl-v-to-paste Windows-ish/Mac-ish kind of stuff. I'm sort of +0 on doing this, I suppose.
I also use emacs "dired" mode a lot which allows you to navigate directory structures and open files using the keyboard. Something approximating this would be useful.
Context-sensitive (keyword and variable) completion would be pretty snazzy too. Emacs doesn't even have that!
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>In particular, options/tweaks that make drpython more useful
> to zope programmers would be rather nice.
> Any ideas?
>
vim/emacs keybindings would be a start. Most Zope programmers I know use either vim or emacs. I use emacs, and I'm mentally wedded to its weird keybindings from years of torment. For example, I always press (believe it or not) "Ctrl-X 5 2" to open a new window, and I cut and paste text using a combination of "ctrl-spacebar" (begin marking text) "alt-w" (stop marking text and copy selection to the cut buffer) and "ctrl-y" (yank text from the cut buffer and paste it into the document at the cursor position). This is obviously much different than your normal use-the-mouse-to-select, ctrl-x-to-cut, ctrl-c-to-copy, ctrl-v-to-paste Windows-ish/Mac-ish kind of stuff. I'm sort of +0 on doing this, I suppose.
I also use emacs "dired" mode a lot which allows you to navigate directory structures and open files using the keyboard. Something approximating this would be useful.
Context-sensitive (keyword and variable) completion would be pretty snazzy too. Emacs doesn't even have that!