n900inLondon | # 1 | 2010-02-10, 22:11 | Report

Hi,

I commute on the tube for an hour twice a day. What do you think is the best dev environment (apps, games) to make my time productive ?

So far Python + vi seems to be the sensible option

Thanks,

Neil

Texrat | # 2 | 2010-02-10, 22:18 | Report

Forget vi, go with PyGTKEditor:

http://maemo.org/downloads/Maemo5/development/

n900inLondon | # 3 | 2010-02-11, 13:26 | Report

it has highlighting but to actually be productive would need:
autocompletion
quick way of looking at documentation.
way to execute commands (i.e. embed python).

It could be that idle would be useful but this is not compiled properly on the device; complains about python-tk package. Not sure if it is safe to just install from whatever dev repository it is in...

Neil

McLightning | # 4 | 2010-02-11, 15:42 | Report

as it has been possible to run debian softwares on maemo
i can tell you there are countless productivity apps.
i use glade , gimp and pygtkeditor

mwerle | # 5 | 2010-02-11, 16:08 | Report

My main requirement is decent offline documentation. It would be a good project to gather together all relevant API docs and make them available as a single download, updated regularly.

Currently documentation is spread amongst Wikis, PDFs, various project-specific API docs, etc. and is often not in a format conducive for downloading. wget has been my friend..

Considering the screen realestate is so small, I would prefer switching from editor to browser (or other suitable doc reader) rather than having code-completion/pop-ups.