Re: [Jython-users] What are Jython folks using to edit?

[Ype K. <yk...@xs...>]

Frank,

>I'm considering contributing code to NetBeans as an IDE to do Jython script
>editing. I'm wondering what people are using to edit Jython scripts?

On unix I use vi, on the mac BBEdit,
and everywhere else any flat text editor.
I grew up in vi and somehow never needed emacs. Vi has good
python support under unix (syntax coloring, indentation).
BBEdit has very nice multifile regex searching capabilities, but
I use python/jython only very occasionaly on the Mac.
Surprisingly the flat text editors on other platforms are a lot easier
to use with python than I expected because of the easy syntax.
They do leave the occasional missing colon or inconsistent dedent,
so better support for python is certainly possible, but not a prime concern.

None of the editors I use can identify a possible NameError. Since this
is my most frequent mistake (mistyping a name), this might be really
nice to have. Importing modules just for name editing purposes might
be overkill, though.

Good luck,
Ype