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by ianamartin 3755 days ago
I keep trying PyHarm and giving up. I've never been able to get it configured well for the way I work. So I keep going back to SublimeText with with Python IDE plugins.

Then I get frustrated with that workflow because it doesn't well working on remote servers and go back to VIM. Which I also can't seem to get comfortably configured.

So then I boot one of my macs into Windows for a while and use VS with Pyrhon Tools and get frustrated with Windows, and well . . . .

Sorry, I know this isn't about Python. I've just never found that jet brains products work well for me. I feel like I'm fighting with them. Maybe it's time to give it another shot.

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I think it's very dependent on your programming style. Compared to Jedi in Emacs and Atom, PyCharm's symbol detection/jump to definition/refactoring is absolutely world class.

After learning the keyboard shortcuts for "Jump to Symbol"," Jump to File", and "Jump to Class" my productivity increased maybe 3 fold. Why should I remember where stuff is when the computer can do it for me?

I'd recommend turning off tabs and using split views though. You can get a lot of mileage if you tweak PyCharm (especially for web projects, where the HTML/JS/Typescript integrations help a lot)

Disclaimer: I'm the PyCharm Developer Evangelist. That said, I'd be interested to hear what stuff from ST you couldn't get going the way you'd like in PyCharm. In fact, I just wrote draft docs talking about migrating from text editors.

Also, if it helps, we just did a Getting Started nine-part series of screencasts, available on YouTube. Of course, if the part that isn't working for you doesn't get mentioned, then I need to add to the series.

I don't want to further derail this thread, but I'm happy to,take this conversation to email if you would like. Address is in my profile.
Also, check out the VS Code with Python tools on Mac.