Feature request with a **donation-driven** effort ...

[Noel Milton Vega]

Hello Friends:

I was talking to Bob by email yesterday, about enhancing bpython.
I mentioned, in part, this:

-------------------------------------------------------------------
I'd happily donate to get paging capability so that we can see the rest of the pop-up doc-strings.
I don't think that capability ever existed (and if it does, I don't know how to use it). Would
adding this functionality be possible? For all the Python IDEs that I've tried (WingIDE PRO is my
favorite), I always fall back to the triple of:
    UNIX screen utility; VIM w/ Python IDE hooks; and bPython.
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Bob suggested that I reach out to bpython friends here.

bpython is very useful, and works just about anywhere. I really would like to see it evolve
to have two additional killer features (for me anyway):

(1) Paging capability so that we can page through the rest of the pop-up doc-strings (as mentioned above).

(2) VIM ex/vi capability for statement recall, edition, search, etc. (like what 'sed -o vi'
does for us in bash).

Maybe this is partly done already. Who knows. =:).

But I'm wondering if there's any interest -- by one of the bpython developers -- to implement
the two items above in a donation-driven effort, which I'm happy to start off.
Or maybe even a tiny kickstarter (although I don't how that works).

Let's bring bpython to v1.0 with the two enhancements above. =:)

Thanks & Warm Regards,
Noel

[Thomas Ballinger]

Hi all,

Without making any commitments or declaring whether these two features are a good idea, here are a few thoughts:

* For paging through the pop-up docstrings the biggest thing that comes to mind is deciding on keybindings

* For vim bindings: this is a larger project but certainly doable. It's not been on my agenda because there are other projects that have done a decent job of it (ptpython in particular), and it's sort of a never-ending effort once you start down the vim path :)  I believe Julian has looked at this a bit as per https://github.com/bpython/bpython/issues/429

I'd defer to Sebastian and Andreas for whether these features belong and interest in the donation-driven approach.

Noel, to make sure we're on the same page: can I assume you're using the newest release of bpython, 0.15?

-Tom

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bpython" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bpython+u...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to bpy...@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bpython.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

[Noel Milton Vega]

Hi Tom:

Thank you for replying and giving your input.

Yes indeed. I use version 0.15. I'm always delighted when a new version arrives; but I fully understand why it doesn't happen often. :)

P.S. I had never heard of ptpython.

Thank you,
Noel

You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups "bpython" group.
To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/topic/bpython/_dctmI36XHE/unsubscribe.
To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to bpython+u...@googlegroups.com.

[Noel Milton Vega]

Hi again Tom:

Oh I understand better now what you were getting at, having looked at ptpython just now
(I had never heard of it). It does appear to offer the features that I always pined for
in bpython (for years =:)).

Noel

On Thursday, March 31, 2016 at 4:14:58 PM UTC-4, Noel Milton Vega wrote:

Hi Tom:

Thank you for replying and giving your input.

Yes indeed. I use version 0.15. I'm always delighted when a new version arrives; but I fully understand why it doesn't happen often. :)

P.S. I had never heard of ptpython.

Thank you,
Noel

On Mar 31, 2016 2:13 PM, "Thomas Ballinger"

Hi all,

Without making any commitments or declaring whether these two features are a good idea, here are a few thoughts:

* For paging through the pop-up docstrings the biggest thing that comes to mind is deciding on keybindings

* For vim bindings: this is a larger project but certainly doable. It's not been on my agenda because there are other projects that have done a decent job of it (ptpython in particular), and it's sort of a never-ending effort once you start down the vim path :)  I believe Julian has looked at this a bit as per https://github.com/bpython/bpython/issues/429

I'd defer to Sebastian and Andreas for whether these features belong and interest in the donation-driven approach.

Noel, to make sure we're on the same page: can I assume you're using the newest release of bpython, 0.15?

-Tom

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Noel Milton Vega

Hello Friends:

so that we can page through the rest of the pop-up doc-strings (as mentioned above).

To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bpython+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.

To post to this group, send email to bpy...@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bpython.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups "bpython" group.
To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/topic/bpython/_dctmI36XHE/unsubscribe.

To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to bpython+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.