More Thoughts on Eric
I have been playing with Eric as an editor for my Django project and here are my thoughts.
- Eric is a good way to keep track of projects. You can associate all the files for the project in the project manager.
- Eric makes it easy to manage Django projects and integrates the running and management of the project within Eric. For example:
- You can start and run the integrated Django server from Eric.
- You can managed the database within Eric
- The Python debugging and highlighting errors in Eric is very good.
What are the problems that I have with Eric.
- Splitting is ok. Eric allows you to split the screen, but you can not view the same file in both views of the split. I use dual view of a file to view function calls I am trying to use, or parts of the code I want to copy.
- HTML highlighting is non-existent, which is very important with Django as you have some templates for viewing the data.
I am still playing with Eric, but have jumped back to my favorite editor, jEdit, because it handles Eric's limitations today.
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Eric Does Splitting and Highlighting
Ok, I was wrong.
Eric does do the splitting that I like to see where I can look at the same file in two pains at the same time. I did not find it very intuitive in making it work, but it does work.
And, it does do HTML syntax highlighting. The problem that I was having with the HTML syntax highlighting was that I was working with a Django project with Eric and it looks at all HTML files as templates and highlights the syntax differently. Once I change the highlighting manually to HTML, the highlighting worked as I expected.
I am going to try to use Eric for my bigger projects and stay with jEdit for my smaller edits, for now.
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