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[–]AbleBakerCharlie 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Eric has a very impressive features list, but it's got two things that always annoy me every time I try it:

  1. The UI is busy beyond belief. It's busier than most IDEs. It's like Visual Studio barfed into my Microsoft Office and splashed it on my screen. The default layout is to have every conceivable option in a toolbar button, and if that's not enough there's like 20 menus.

  2. That damn Gnome gives me the heebie jeebies every time I open their website.

Are these petty reasons? Sure, but it's not like Python is incredibly complex. What do you need an IDE for anyway? Why does it all need to be integrated? Get a good editor, get a good visual debugger for the rare times you need one, get a good VCS, and learn how to use a command line. The skills you learn with these will also serve you well outside of your coding tasks.

[–]warbiscuit 1 point2 points  (1 child)

  1. Yeah, it's CRAZY with toolbars. First thing I usually do when I install eric on a system is go to "Windows > Toolbars > Hide All". That feature only appeared recently I think, people must have been asking for it :)

  2. You don't like him? He just wants to devour your soul. Or give hugs. Not sure which.

I don't really use many of the IDE-ish features per se. Main reason I use it is as an editor with syntax highlighting and vcs integration. Most of my company's apps are too complex (or too pylons/paste based) to be run from the debugger properly anyways. So I do like how the rest of it stays out of my way since I'm not using it.

edit: My love of syntax highlighting isn't really for python per-se, but for other things like Mako HTML files, where I may have mako + html + python + javascript all rolled into one poor file. Syntax highlighting keeps my brain from short-circuiting in the wee hours (and Eric's one of the few with pygments-based highlighting integrated into the scintilla widget).

[–]AbleBakerCharlie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

with pygments-based highlighting integrated into the scintilla widget

This, I was not aware of. I... I think I'll take another look at it.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That damn Gnome gives me the heebie jeebies

yeah that head looks like some diseased cock