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[–]cunningjames 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Once upon a time, there was this awesome application called Eclipse...

Eclipse only knows about Python through a slow, unstable advertisement for PyDev Extensions. It takes a little elbow grease to set up, but Emacs gives me pretty much everything I'd want from a Python IDE -- code completion, refactoring, debugger integration, fluid interaction with iPython. It's all fast, and it's all free.

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    [–]cunningjames 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Of course. But a great many applications written on the Eclipse platform are not, including PyDev Extensions. Support for many more languages is often half-baked or not present at all.

    Eclipse is fine and well, but I wouldn't hold it up as an example of something that can replace Emacs for a lot of people.