«

Good Afternoon,

I'm looking for an IDE which offers syntax-highlighting,
code-completion, tabs, an embedded interpreter and which is portable
(for running from USB on Windows).

Here's a mockup of the app I'm looking for: http://i52.tinypic.com/2uojswz.png

Which would you recommend?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions,

Alec Taylor

On Apr 16, 8:20*am, Alec Taylor <alec.tayl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good Afternoon,
>
> I'm looking for an IDE which offers syntax-highlighting,
> code-completion, tabs, an embedded interpreter and which is portable
> (for running from USB on Windows).
>
> Here's a mockup of the app I'm looking for:http://i52.tinypic.com/2uojswz..png

As Ben suggested you can use emacs (Dunno if vi will give an embedded
interpreter)
but be prepared to have to work a bit -- it does not just work out of
the box.
In particular emacs will default to using a different python mode
(python.el) than the one that python programmers seem prefer
https://launchpad.net/python-mode/

You may also want to look at ipython

BTW how did you make that mockup?

On Apr 15, 11:20*pm, Alec Taylor <alec.tayl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good Afternoon,
>
> I'm looking for an IDE which offers syntax-highlighting,
> code-completion, tabs, an embedded interpreter and which is portable
> (for running from USB on Windows).
>
> Here's a mockup of the app I'm looking for:http://i52.tinypic.com/2uojswz..png
>
> Which would you recommend?
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
>
> Alec Taylor

You seem to have drawn PSPad (http://www.pspad.com/). With one
preferences change and a little bit of window rearranging, you can
make PSPad do what you want.

Ben Finney <ben+> writes:

> Alec Taylor <> writes:
>
>> I'm looking for an IDE which offers syntax-highlighting,
>> code-completion, tabs, an embedded interpreter and which is portable
>> (for running from USB on Windows).
>
> Either of Emacs <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/> or Vim
> <URL:http://www.vim.org/> are excellent general-purpose editors that
> have strong features for programmers of any popular language or text
> format.

I second Emacs or vim. I currently use Emacs the most, but I think it's
good to learn both.

--
John Bokma j3b

Blog: http://johnbokma.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/j.j.j.bokma
Freelance Perl & Python Development: http://castleamber.com/

Thanks, but non of the IDEs so far suggested have an embedded python
interpreter AND tabs... a few of the editors (such as Editra) have
really nice interfaces, however are missing the embedded
interpreter... emacs having the opposite problem, missing tabs (also,
selecting text with my mouse is something I do often).

Please continue your recommendations.

Thanks,

Alec Taylor

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 3:29 PM, John Bokma <> wrote:
> Ben Finney <ben+> writes:
>
>> Alec Taylor <> writes:
>>
>>> I'm looking for an IDE which offers syntax-highlighting,
>>> code-completion, tabs, an embedded interpreter and which is portable
>>> (for running from USB on Windows).
>>
>> Either of Emacs <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/> or Vim
>> <URL:http://www.vim.org/> are excellent general-purpose editors that
>> have strong features for programmers of any popular language or text
>> format.
>
> I second Emacs or vim. I currently use Emacs the most, but I think it's
> good to learn both.
>
> --
> John Bokma * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * j3b
>
> Blog: http://johnbokma.com/ * *Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/j.j.j.bokma
> * *Freelance Perl & Python Development: http://castleamber.com/
> --
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>

Alec Taylor wrote:
> Please continue your recommendations.
>


IDLE?


(works for me)







3.2 is working much better for me this week...


(thanks)




kind regards,
m harris

On Apr 16, 1:43*am, Alec Taylor <alec.tayl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, but non of the IDEs so far suggested have an embedded python
> interpreter AND tabs... a few of the editors (such as Editra) have
> really nice interfaces, however are missing the embedded
> interpreter... emacs having the opposite problem, missing tabs (also,
> selecting text with my mouse is something I do often).

Boa Constructor has syntax-highlighting, code-completion, tabs, line
numbers, and an embedded interpreter. It also does a lot of other
IDEish stuff and it's a GUI builder, too. I've never tried to run it
from a USB, though, and the interpreter (the "shell") is in a separate
tab, not on the bottom as you've drawn it.

You might want to just look at this page for other ideas:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/Integrat...ntEnvironments

On 16 avr, 05:20, Alec Taylor <alec.tayl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good Afternoon,
>

....

Windows user here.

I'm using SciTE, http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html . Portable
(run on/from an usb key), output pane, ...

If you are interested in a portable Interactive Interpreter,
http://spinecho.ifrance.com/psi.html (run on/from an usb
key).

IDLE loses syntax highlighting annoyingly often, and interpreter isn't embedded.

Boa Constructor gave errors on installation (keys).

Komodo might be good, however isn't free nor can't be run from USB

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 4:31 PM, CM <> wrote:
> On Apr 16, 1:43*am, Alec Taylor <alec.tayl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks, but non of the IDEs so far suggested have an embedded python
>> interpreter AND tabs... a few of the editors (such as Editra) have
>> really nice interfaces, however are missing the embedded
>> interpreter... emacs having the opposite problem, missing tabs (also,
>> selecting text with my mouse is something I do often).
>
> Boa Constructor has syntax-highlighting, code-completion, tabs, line
> numbers, and an embedded interpreter. *It also does a lot of other
> IDEish stuff and it's a GUI builder, too. I've never tried to run it
> from a USB, though, and the interpreter (the "shell") is in a separate
> tab, not on the bottom as you've drawn it.
>
> You might want to just look at this page for other ideas:
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/Integrat...ntEnvironments
> --
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>

On Saturday 16 April 2011 15:55:59 harrismh777 wrote:
> Alec Taylor wrote:
> > Please continue your recommendations.
>
> IDLE?
>
> (works for me)
>
> 3.2 is working much better for me this week...
>
> (thanks)
>
> kind regards,
> m harris

IDLE is ok and it comes by default with Python. Eric4 for
Python 2.x and Eric5 for Python 3.x is just great! Why is Eric
"great" and IDLE just "ok"? Eric puts a space by default after
a ',' and close bracket for evey open bracket typed. Less
typing, much along the Python effects on source code.

OldAl.
--
Algis
http://akabaila.pcug.org.au/StructuralAnalysis.pdf