How to get Vim setup to be a powerful IDE for python, Including code completion, call tips, integration with pydoc, and debugging.

Vim already has built in syntax highlighting for python but I have a small tweak to vim to give you notifications of small syntax errors like forgetting a colon after a for loop. Create a file called ~/.vim/syntax/python.vim and add the following…

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An overview of 35 established or rather unknown ' but useful source code-editors; youll probably find usual suspects, but youll also find some rather unknown alternatives which are definitely worth considering when choosing an optimal source code editor.

Vim (all)Vim (Vi IMproved), first released by Bram Moolenaar in 1991 for the Amiga computer, is a legend. It is a highly configurable console text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi…

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ActiveState announced the release of Komodo Edit 4.3 last week, the first version of the cross-platform programming tool to be distributed as open source. Komodo Edit is now tri-licensed under the MPL, GPL, and LGPL, just like Firefox.

For comparison purposes, I also briefly looked at ActiveState's commercial version (there is a free trial available), Komodo IDE. The Komodo IDE has some really nice additional features, like version control functionality and an…

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