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The Best Python Code Editor: Komodo Edit

I looked for a Python editor a lot, I found Pydev which is a plugin for Eclipse and since Eclipse sucks, it’s ugly and the code looks ugly too, it just kills my creativity, it’s also slow on top of that.

Then I found IronPython plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio, this one requires Visual Studio which is paid and it doesn’t make your life easier, for example if I have:

def some_func():
   pass

Now, after “pass” if I hit “Enter” I want to get back to the beginning of the next line but this wasn’t happening in IronPython. (+ a bunch of other things)

I guess I got spoiled because I use Dreamweaver to write PHP and it just does everything as you expect, it’s smooth and well thought out, much like other Macromedia products; take Fireworks for example, those who use Fireworks and Photoshop know the brilliance behind the design of Fireworks’s UI… Why didn’t Macromedia buy Adobe?!

Anyway, if you are like me and feel the same way, try Komodo Edit. I have nothing to do with it or ActiveState but I have to say that this editor made my life so much easier and I’m not looking back. It also has support for a bunch of other languages like PHP etc.

EDIT: So after using this great text editor for a little while, I decided to write a quick list of pros and cons:

Pros:
1 – It’s free.
2 – It’s open-source.
3 – It’s nice looking. (I care about this, I’m convinced that it effects creativity…)
4 – It’s smooth and fast.
5 – It does what you expect it to do; very intuitive.
6 – It’s written by people who love writing code.
7 – It’s cross-platform.
8 – It supports: PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl and Tcl, plus JavaScript, CSS, HTML and template languages like RHTML, Template-Toolkit, HTML-Smarty and Django.
9 – It supports code completion.
10 – It has great help and docs.

Cons:
None.

Happy Coding…

The Best Python Code Editor: Komodo Edit
Comments (5)   Filed under: Annoying Stuff,IDEs,PHP,Programming,Python,Web Development   Posted by: Hamid

jQuery UI Dialog And The Enter – Return Key Problem

This is another post for my ‘Annoying Stuff’ collection and this one is very, so very annoying…

The problem is that jQuery UI, supports forms in dialogs but the problem is that a user can’t hit ‘Enter’ to submit the form, it will break everything, a user has to actually hit the ‘Submit’ (or whatever) button manually. This make the whole thing completely useless unless you make some changes that are basically tweaking the internals of jQuery UI, which is ugly and can break if they change things around but sadly this is the only solution for now.

Assuming that you use the same syntax jQuery UI suggests to create your form, the fix is something like this:

$('.dialog').find('input').keypress(function(e) {
	if ((e.which && e.which == 13) || (e.keyCode && e.keyCode == 13)) {
		$(this).parent().parent().parent().parent().find('.ui-dialog-buttonpane').find('button:first').click(); /* Assuming the first one is the action button */
		return false;
	}
});

You might have to modify it a tiny bit, if that’s the case, you most likely have to change the part $(‘.dialog’) so that it selects the right container that wraps the form…

jQuery UI Dialog And The Enter – Return Key Problem
Comments (11)   Filed under: Annoying Stuff,JavaScript,jQuery,Programming,Web Design,Web Development   Posted by: Hamid
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