Hands on: open-source scripting environment Komodo Edit 4.3 (ars technica) [LWN.net]

ars technica reviews the newly-freed Komodo Edit release. "Komodo Edit has a decent range of features that put it squarely between a conventional editor and a full-fledged IDE. The feature set includes basic project management, a snippet system, effective find-and-replace with support for regular expressions, extremely robust support for plug-ins and user modification, a tab-based multiple document interface, syntax highlighting and folding, code completion and tips, and basic code validation."

Hands on: open-source scripting environment Komodo Edit 4.3 (ars technica)

Posted Mar 17, 2008 16:35 UTC (Mon) by chbarts (guest, #28896) [Link] (1 responses)

So, it's kind of a limited subset of basic Emacs functionality? The reviewer certainly didn't make it clear how Komodo stacks up to one of its major competitors in this space.

It would be better if it dropped the rather heavyweight XUL and focused on being an Emacs-in-Javascript with all of the extensibility GNU Emacs and XEmacs have had for decades. It doesn't have to keep the keybindings, but the essential concept of writing most of the editor in the dynamic extension language and then making that code user-editable is vital to making the extension language more than a toy.

Hands on: open-source scripting environment Komodo Edit 4.3 (ars technica)

Posted Mar 17, 2008 17:05 UTC (Mon) by holstein (guest, #6122) [Link]

Well, at first look, it's not equivalent with Emacs and it's relation with elisp, but most of
what I'm looking at is written in Python; C++ is probably used for performance sensitive spot
(the classic Python best-practice), and from what I can see from my very quick look,
XUL/Javascript for the UI.

I'm giving it a try, I'm intrigued.

Hands on: open-source scripting environment Komodo Edit 4.3 (ars technica)

Posted Mar 19, 2008 10:31 UTC (Wed) by sp.at (guest, #36249) [Link]

After reading this article I was a bit curious. I tried PyDev as Python IDE earlier, but then
stuck with GNU Emacs, which did serve me well in the past.

Now I gave OpenKomodo a try. Compiling from source takes ages, because it is based on Mozilla.
Something I can live with though.
The build system is a bit weird, non-standard and does not allow one to install the
application somewhere. Running in-place is supported though.

Personally I have to say it is a bit bloated and misses a few features that actually would
make me use an IDE instead of Emacs: No version control support is probably the best example.

I also gave PIDA a try and was impressed. A blog post containing my observations can be found
at http://www.sp.or.at/blog/2008/03/19/python-ides-tested/. If you are looking for a Python
IDE you might want to read that post.