[Eric] another icons for Eric

Detlev Offenbach detlev at die-offenbachs.de
Wed Sep 7 16:56:19 BST 2011


Am Mittwoch, 7. September 2011, 09:21:09 schrieb Victor Varvariuc:
> I have two reasons for this:
> 1. I work in a company where Eclipse is a de facto standard. Using it will
> also allow me using the same IDE for projects in other languages.
> 2. (The major reason) Not very good code autocomplete out of the box. PyDev
> offers very good autocomplete with some introspection. One small and simple
> example:
> 
> class A():
>     static_attr = 1
>     def some_method(self):
>         pass
> 
> a = A()
> a.
> 
> After the dot Eclipse is suggesting me static_attr and some_method(), while
> Eric will suggest them only if have entered a.static_attr and
> a.some_method() before.
> Good autocomplete offers me the way to save some efforts during coding.

That is on the todo list.

> Also PyDev offers the way to go to class source or object definition - very
> useful when working with bigger projects (like scrapy, twisted).

Just to let everybody know, that eric also supports this through it's rope 
(Refactoring) plug-in. The above functions are available via the Refactoring 
menu.

> 
> You already mentioned that you don't have time (ability) to
> enable supporting autocomplete in Eric at this kind of level and you welcome
> the patches.
> So for now - Eclipse.
> 
> Eric is a very good IDE (small memory footprint compared to Eclipse and is
> faster, etc.) and I am sure it will continue improving.
> 
> Thank you for this wonderful product, Detlev!
> 
> --
> *Victor Varvariuc*
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Detlev Offenbach
> 
> <detlev at die-offenbachs.de>wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 10:25:58 schrieb Victor Varvariuc:
> > > Hi Detlev,
> > > 
> > > I was doing from time to time another icons for Eric (16x16).
> > > As i probably will not do them anymore (i mostly will use Eclipse
> > > with
> > > PyDev) i decided to send them to you.
> > 
> > It's too sad that you are not using eric anymore. Can you give some
> > reasons for your decision so I can try to improve eric in the right
> > direction.
-- 
Detlev Offenbach
detlev at die-offenbachs.de


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