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Further to our recent discussion of editors, has anyone checked out
Peppy?"
http://peppy.flipturn.org/
I quote from a recent post to the pythonmac list:
> Nehemiah Dacres wrote:
>> What is the difference between this editor and editra
>
> The big difference is that Peppy has been designed to be more flexible
> and expendable -- I think it has the potential to be a really great
> editor for ALL types of text files (and some others -- binary, etc.).
> Some of the key features:
>
> - user-definable key bindings, including emacs style multi-key
> bindings.
>
> - User definable major-modes for different file types. (and I think
> they are inheritable, so you could create one that was almost like an
> existing mode, then add/change a bit for your use.
>
> - Minor modes -- these are kind of like mix-ins -- extra
> functionality
> you can tack onto various major modes -- like word wrapping etc.
>
> - You can view the same buffer (file) in multiple windows at the same
> time.
>
> Is does currently lack a bit of polish, particularly on the Mac.
>
>
> Editra (and PyPE, SPE, ulipad, etc....), on the other hand has been
> built to do what it does well, but without the built-in flexibility.
> No
> different modes, no user-definable key bindings, etc. It does work
> better for the basic stuff out-of-the-box, but I've bumped into limits
> already with it.
>
> In short, the developers have taken a different tack -- Peppy has been
> designed from the ground up with a focus on getting a flexible (and
> admittedly complex) framework in place, with some of the usability
> details on the back burner. Editra, on the other hand, has focused on
> getting basic functionality in place, including the usability
> niceties.
> This does make early version more usable, but I think, in the long
> run,
> Peppy has more room to grow.
>
>> and is there any
>> possibility that i would be able to use this via a console?
>
> I think there is a possibility in the future that a console mode could
> be built -- it's got good separation of functionality from UI, but
> there
> is only a wx UI at the moment -- I don't think he has plans for a
> console version.
>
> -Chris
>
> PS: Peppy is the only editor other than (X)emacs that has a python
> mode
> that does indentation right.
>
> -Chris
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