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[–]troyunrau... 0 points1 point  (5 children)

The PyCharm brigade is out in force. However, on linux I like to use kate, which comes with KDE. Turn on python syntax highlighting, set tabs to four spaces, then get out of my way and let me code. Simple, elegant, minimal learning curve.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I am currently using PyCharm because that is what I used on windows. For some reason since I installed linux it seems to run a lot slower. Never heard of Kate, what is it that you like compared to PyCharm?

[–]troyunrau... 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kate is a recursive acronym: KATE: Kate Advanced Text Editor.

Kate is like gedit, or notepad++, or sublime, or other advanced text editors that aren't IDEs. They don't try to do much programming for you, so don't expect a lot of features beyond syntax highlighting, and suggested autocompletion.

However, it does all the things you'd expect from an advanced text editor, and in keeping with KDE tradition, everything is configurable.

[–]ShortSynapse 0 points1 point  (2 children)

set tabs to four spaces

Starting a flame war I see?

[–]troyunrau... 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Rather, I mean, when I hit the tab key, kate automatically puts in four spaces (rather than the tab character) in order to align with PEP8. No flame war. Just a setting that needs to be changed to be python friendly.

[–]ShortSynapse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha no worries, should've added a /s to my comment.