[ckan-dev] Preferred IDE for CKAN development?

Thu Nov 1 11:54:36 UTC 2012

Most python devs I know write code in vim/emacs/textmate and run it on
the command line with pdb to debug. But I hear Eclipse is a good
visual debugger which I mean to try sometime.

I was intrigued to hear about a particular developer preferring using
an IDE over command-line development describing it as "to write
software in a way that doesn't feel like having their skin sanded off"
:-) http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/may/04/rim-blackberry-bb10-development

Dave

On 1 November 2012 11:08, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at okfn.org> wrote:
>> If it helps, most of CKAN developers (all?) use vim for developing,
>
> Surely there must be someone who does not use vim! Let us single them
> out :) All those nice modern Python IDEs out there and everyone uses
> this thing for the 70s designed for saving costly key presses when
> working on remote servers at 5600 baud.
>
> I use a combination of vim with various plugins and a tabbed terminal
> with various command-line tools, rather than an all-in-one IDE. Some of
> the vim plugins I use for python dev:
>
> ctrl-p
> syntastic (probably the most useful thing)
> vim's filetype plugin so it does proper auto indenting and tabbing for Python
>
> and in the terminal:
>
> ipython
> ipdb or updb, and the ipdb or updb plugin for nose
> ack
> virtualenv-wrapper
> zsh with oh-my-zsh, if configured right you can get syntax highlighting
>  of shell commands as you type them, good history substring search (the
>  most useful thing) and tab-complete of things like git and pip options
>  and subcommands with drop-down lists of suggestions
>
> I can't think of anything else that's particularly important. I guess
> there's not a lot to it really.
>
> I don't defend vim really, it's hard to learn and ridiculously archaic,
> and a lot of what it does seems to be very clever and complicated ways
> to save on key presses when editing text, if you have the time to learn
> a whole language of keyboard shortcuts, which does not seem as important
> as actually helping you think about your code, but it is addictive once
> you're in it's hard to get out.
>
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