Re: [Visualpython-users] Installer issues

[Bruce S. <bas...@un...>]

I had the vague notion that ScITE is Windows-specific -- right or wrong?

Highlighting Visual keywords might be nice, but it is really the high
interactivity of idlefork that matters to me. Anything that offers one-key
edit/run cycles is what I want, and what I want for my students. Is that
possible with ScITE?

Bruce Sherwood

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur" <ajs...@op...>
To: "Bruce Sherwood" <bas...@un...>;
<vis...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Visualpython-users] Installer issues


> > Small technical note: There isn't any real "marriage" of Visual and
> > idlefork; anyone can obviously edit Visual programs with any editor
> > whatsoever. But there has to be at least one way to do it in a bundled
> > distribution, and idlefork has served the purpose well.
>
> I might be getting ahead of myself.  But even the new IDLE is only syntax
> aware as to Python. Is it easy enough to, for example, add syntax
> highlighting of VPython keywords?
>
> I do know that with something like SciTE, with a little futzing that even
> someone of my modest C++ skills is capable of, you can have an editor
aware
> of Python *and* VPython keywords - with the potential of acutally going
> quite a bit further than that in customizing it as a VPython environment.
>
> BTW, the creator of ScITE is also the author of scintilla, SciTE's
> underlying C++ library. Scintilla is widley used in the non-Python world,
> but is also used as an underlying library for PythonWin and the wxPython
> editor text widget.  And though it is C++,  its creator considers Python
his
> favorite programming langauge, and he in fact uses Python as a
configration
> tool for customizations.  So its all in the family.  And probably why
> someone like myself is comforatable with it's customization features.
>
> Just a thought really.  Its the conclusion I have reached as to what works
> best as to PyGeo, in any case.
>
> Art
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