Re: [Visualpython-users] Installer issues

[Arthur <ajs...@op...>]

[Bruce]
> I should indeed take a look at ScITE. I vaguely remember bouncing off it a
> long time ago, but I now forget why. Maybe it was Windows-only at that
time?

I am glad.

Because after pledging not to hardsell it, I was going to relent - having
thought about it some more - and pitch it a little more.

I will discuss it as to PyGeo.

What I think is important about the environment, as customized, is not only
what it has, but what it doesn't have.  I have been doing Python for some
time, and have never used a class browser, formal debugger, etc.  Simply was
inconsistent with how I approached the learning curve, and what felt natural
to me specifically as it concerns Python.

Having superfluous features in the environment I think makes it feel
foreign.  And one is not sure as to what features one should or should not
be exploring.

The features you describe you are focusing one for your students, are the
same features I have wanted and accessed as a user -  and essentially only
those.  And I have gotten pretty far with them.

A very focused environment, uncluttered is the ideal, IMO.  And with some
customization - more taking away unneeded features (e.g. the ability to
syntax highlight REXX), than adding new ones  - one can be left with very
much that.

And in fact this kind of customization as an environment for specialized
needs is exactly the niche ScITE is designed to fill.  And I think that is
also important.  It is using ScITE/scintilla exactly as it designed to be
used - not hacking at it.

Art