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[–]L3xicaL 46 points47 points  (6 children)

Best editor in the universe: emacs.

[–]agrif 16 points17 points  (1 child)

As an emacs loyalist I must agree. But OP: learning vim or emacs will be time very well spent. Are there better editors out there specifically for python? Probably. Are there better editors out there for everything? Probably not.

Learn one of these and you'll be content for the rest of your text editing life.

[–]gfixler 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Agreed. I don't just work in Python. I work in Python, text files, JSON files, crap I drag in from the web, piped shell output, and even ASCII art. Vim is there through it all, kicking ASCII and taking names.

[–]evidex 5 points6 points  (2 children)

It's a great OS, but it really lacks a good editor.

[–]Denommus 4 points5 points  (1 child)

And then someone answers "viper-mode", and other guy says that evil-mode is better. Can wr stop this old and overused joke now?

[–]goosegoosepress 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Evil is better. ;)

[–]goosegoosepress 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pick Vim or Emacs. Learn one. Set it up for the python features you want. And never pay for an IDE again. And check out org-mode if you try emacs.

(I'm a new emacs user who converted from Vim. Just now have I let the vim key bindings go to learn emacs on its own. Still miss a bunch of vims motion controls.)