Last night the Utah Python User Group held an editor/IDE smackdown. I'm not going to write an exhaustive summary, but here are some highlights:
- ViM's OmniComplete is actually pretty decent. Calltip support in the GUI is also good. (GUI? ViM? Yeah, weird.)
- Emacs completion, from Rope, is also good. Emacs's refusal to make any concession to GUIs though keeps things clunky. Not that it isn't great that Everything Works over plain ssh; that's fine, but going through classic Emacs buffers for docstrings or completion means everything takes more keystrokes than it should while being less useful than having that information Always On.
- Rope also gives Emacs refactoring support that works surprisingly well.
- PyDev still sees a big win from the Eclipse platform. Specifically, even though Subclipse and Subversive are a bit weak compared to the gold standard (that would be TortoiseSVN), they are much better than what you get with Komodo or Wing. Now that I am on OS X (no Tortoise) this is a bigger issue for me than it used to be.
- PyDev Extensions has refactoring support now, too.
- Komodo has limited support for completion inside django templates. Which is impressive, since the commands allowed in django templates aren't really Python, which is to say that you can't just use the same completion support that you use for normal Python code.
- Mako template support with completion, anyone?
- The latest versions of Komodo and Wing both integrate unittest support. Wing also supports doctest out of the box. Meaning, you click a button, your tests run, you get a pretty summary with click-to-go-to-the-source-of-the-error support. This might get me to finally upgrade to Wing 3. It's not that "python test.py" is so hard, so much as I do it so often that even a little more convenience adds up.
Update: Ryan McGuire blogged about his Emacs presentation in more detail.
Update 2: John Anderson blogged about setting up ViM
Comments
Granted ulipad isn't advanced, but it's snappy and *just works*. Give it a try. I use it exclusively for editing mako stuff.
http://code.google.com/p/ulipad/
I recommend using the svn version as the author is pretty active.
Komodo Edit is too restrictive for me. Don't care for it.
Also, I typically do SVN operations right within emacs using the psvn package, which should come installed "out-of-the-box" in most recent emacs dists... Can't get me enough emacs lovin, myself.
Although brand new(ver 0.sth), is written in python, has vi emulation, uses scintella, takes an OK in interface/auto completion abilites.
I think it worths a try!
Have you already tried Pydev/Pydev Extensions? I believe it can fulfill your requisites there. It has: Remote Debugging, select stack for local variables, multiple threads, breakpoint on condition, watches, console to issue commands to a given place in the stack, hyperlinks in console, python/jython support, etc... and it should be pretty fast too.