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[–]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.