[PyKDE] Eric3: Usability and debugging questions

[Detlev Offenbach]

Am Freitag, 15. Juli 2005 06:13 schrieb Suleyman Karabuk:
> I recently installed eric and so far I am very much
> impressed with its functionality and its light
> weightedness. I am using it for developing Python
> code.
>
> However, as I started giving it a spin with my
> production work I ran into the following which I hope
> there are solutions for.
>
> 1) The height of lines in the text editor is unusually
> long compared to the IDEs I have used so far. That is,
> there is an uncomfortable amount of horizontal space
> between lines of my source code. This results in less
> amount of text fitting on the same monitor space. I
> searched for an option that could fix it like mad to
> no success.
>
> The following are more serious:
>
> 2) The debugger goes through list comprehensions and
> sum()s no matter what I do. Continue, step out,
> nothing works. I have to step through all the elements
> of the list comprehension or the iterations of the
> sum(). That practically means I cannot debug most of
> my programs.
>
> I hope I am missing something.
>
> 3) Apparently there is no watch window in the debugger
> panel on which I can isolate the variables I want to
> trace during debugging. I understand that this could
> be a design decision, however, my problem is that
> there are a bunch of variables, most of which I do not
> want to trace, on both global and local variable
> windows. When my interest is on only  a few variables
> then it becomes difficult to isolate those variables
> mentally and watch them. It would even work if I could
> arrange the relative position of the variables on the
> global and locals windows. As it is if there are two
> variables I want to watch one could be at the top of
> the window and the other at the bottom.

You can define a list of regular expressions for variables you don't want to 
see. Please use the line edit below the variables displays. You have to set 
them separately for local and global variables.

>
> I would appreciate any solutions or workarounds to my
> problems.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

Detlev
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