Text Editors for Python

Two text editors are my favourites, vim and sublime text 3, both of which have been widely used in programming. Vim is very powerful, but a little difficult for learn at the beginning. Sublime is smart and easy to use.

  1. Vim

    Vim is pre-installed in most linux systems as well as Mac OSX systems. If you want to install vim from cmd command lines. You may follow this tutorial I have writen.

  2. Sublime

    Dowonload Sublime 3 from https://www.sublimetext.com/3 and choose the right package accordingly. Install subl command line tool (you can skip this setp) Mac OSX:

    $ sudo ln -s /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl /usr/bin/subl

    Linux: modify it accordingly. If it does’t work, tyr

    $ echo "export PATH=~/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.profile``

    Install Package Control Click View > Show Console to open the ST3 console and then copy this code into it:

    #coding:utf-8

import urllib.request,os,hashlib; h = 'df21e130d211cfc94d9b0905775a7c0f' + '1e3d39e33b79698005270310898eea76'; pf = 'Package Control.sublime-package'; ipp = sublime.installed_packages_path(); urllib.request.install_opener( urllib.request.build_opener( urllib.request.ProxyHandler()) ); by = urllib.request.urlopen( 'http://packagecontrol.io/' + pf.replace(' ', '%20')).read(); dh = hashlib.sha256(by).hexdigest(); print('Error validating download (got %s instead of %s), please try manual install' % (dh, h)) if dh != h else open(os.path.join( ipp, pf), 'wb' ).write(by)

    You can now install packages by using the keyboard shortcut cmd+shift+P. Start typing install until Package Control: Install Package appears. Press enter and search for available packages.

    Install SideBarEnhancements Package

    Download or clone the contents of this repository to a folder named exactly as the package name into the Packages/ folder of ST. Otherwise, refer https://packagecontrol.io/packages/SideBarEnhancements.

    Install Anaconda

    Install Anaconda package with the help of Package Control. For a full description of its features, you may consult https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Anaconda. Don’t forget to add {"anaconda_linting": false} in Anaconda User setting file.

    Install Python-PEP8 Autoformat

    Install python-pep8, which is a powerful tool for PEP8 formating of python codes. It’s eays to install it with Package Control.

    Install sublimerge

    This is a powerful tool for a lot of interesting things. It’s the same way of installization. And the website is https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Sublimerge%203.

    Install Sublime-ShellScriptImproved

    This tools enables better ShellScript (Bash) syntax highlight for Sublime Text >= 3116, which makes your shell script more attractive: https://github.com/jfcherng/Sublime-ShellScriptImproved. It can be installed by the packagecontrol.

    Install LaTexTools

    This tools enables the powerful preview of latex equations. You must enjoy it very much! More problems can refer to GitHub repo: https://github.com/SublimeText/LaTeXTools.

    Other fatures You can make full use of this great article https://realpython.com/blog/python/setting-up-sublime-text-3-for-full-stack-python-development/.

    It’s very important to trim the tailing white space. You may configure your user setting file of sublime like:

    #coding:utf-8

  {
  "auto_indent": true,
  "font_size": 14,
  "ignored_packages":
  [
    "Vintage"
  ],
  "rulers":
  [
    79
  ],
  "smart_indent": true,
  "tab_size": 4,
  "trim_automatic_white_space": true,
  "trim_trailing_white_space_on_save": true,
  "use_tab_stops": true,
  "word_wrap": true,
  "wrap_width": 80
  }
Once all the fatures have been configured, your vim should look like:
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The Sublime should equipped with powerful features like this:
_images/sublime.gif