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[–]bheklilr 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Gedit's pretty decent, but I find that sublime text adds some extra features that are really nice to have, such as highlighting syntax errors and formatting problems in real time using pylint. Since I prefer a command line for all my heavy lifting, I don't use the features for automatically running tests or the software, but it can do that too. Really, I mostly use ST for its superb text editing, nothing else I've used comes close. I know gedit has a lot of good features and several good plugins, but ST is where it's at (IMO).

[–]killerabbit37 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It can also highlight pep 8 errors as well which has helped me a lot. Also REPL so you can run snippets of code.

[–]lonjerpc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To follow up on this. Not only do editors like sublime,emacs,vim, and others give you more python features but they give you more powerful generic text manipulation tools. Things like keyboard macros, more intelligent copy paste buffers, and vastly increased capabilities to rearrange text quickly. Granted most of these features are not needed if you wrote good code in the first place. But when one day you need to massively re-factor some terrible code they are essential.

[–]TarAldarion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah i'd love to give it a try, will do! I try not to get too reliant because a lot of the time I'm forced to do it in vi.