Comments on: Emacs as a powerful Python IDE

By: Suren

Suren — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:10:35 +0000

same

error: Pymacs got and invalid initial reply

any suggestion

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:48:47 +0000

Hey Ryan,

Not sure why I had 21. I just installed the snapshot, and everything works!

Thanks

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:51:02 +0000

Hi Justin,

I may be mistaken, but I believe that ERC was not distributed with Emacs 21, so thats probably your problem.

Like you tried, you should just be able to uncomment the erc bits. Be aware that in my dot-emacs there is 1) a require line near the top, 2) a ryan-erc line a bit futher down, and 3) several erc-* lines at the very bottom in the customize section.

I'm currently using Emacs 23, which is the latest "emacs-snapshot" package on Ubuntu. It is still a development package, but it is rock solid stable in my tests. Emacs 22 is the current version you get when you install "emacs" on ubuntu 8.04. Both 23 and 22 include ERC.

Emacs 21 is pretty old by now, is there a specific reason you're still using it?

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:23:32 +0000

Great post, thanks! I tried using your setup, with Emacs 21.4.1 on Ubuntu 8.04 but I keep getting this error when starting up emacs:

"Required feature erc was not provided"

I tried commenting this out in the .emacs but then it complained that 'url' was not provided.

Any suggestions?

By: Gregg

Gregg — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:27:23 +0000

I've been using Emacs for a long time, not all 32 years, but a significant fraction, on many different computers. I've been using Python for 4-5 years, always with Emacs as my IDE. The one thing that drives me nuts is how the interpreter interacts with execute buffer/region/def/class. The buffer ends up in Python without its package, as if it had been typed into the interpreter. So the code behaves differently than if you were running from the command line. This is most troublesome if you've split your code up into multiple files. Any one have a fix for this?

By: paradox1x

paradox1x — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:25:22 +0000

Aquamacs - I am home…

If you like Emacs, and are looking for version that plays well in OS-X land, it looks like Aquamacs is……

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:40:17 +0000

linuxunil,

The "dot-emacs" file in my tarball above is the starting point for where things are loaded. I've sectioned each mode of emacs into various files called ryan-XX where XX is the name of the mode that the file configures. In the dot-emacs file you can simply comment out the loading of each ryan-XX file. If you comment out all of them you are left with a pretty much standard/default emacs install. You can then uncomment each of them, one at a time, as well as tweak the internals of each one individually.

But, you may be just better off not using my environment at all and just reading it and taking out good ideas here and there. I believe that is what sontek is actually doing.

Thanks for dropping by!

By: linuxunil

linuxunil — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:33:14 +0000

You mentioned sontek using your environment as a template. I would like to do the same and was wondering what resources there are out there to make this easier. I've been using emacs in school for a while but never really looked into customizing it until now.

By: Nick Carroll » Blog Archive » Old School Editors for Python Development

Mon, 12 May 2008 11:48:39 +0000

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By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:08:25 +0000

I have also found http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/blank-mode.el very useful when trying to sort out mixed tab / space nonsense (in addition to the built in tabify/untabify)