gedit color schemes? Or suggesting for other external editor.

#1

I’m setting up a centOS workstation and am finally committing to having an external editor for Python and MEL scripting.

Only issue is that I’ve grown accustomed to the maya script editor color scheme for text formatting.

I am wondering if anyone here has a color scheme for gedit or any other editor that they would recommend that also has the same color scheme OR could be setup to look like maya’s?

Thanks :thumbsup:

#2

Started playing with Charcoal editor.

It is quite useful. I changed the default colors to match Maya easily.

The main thing I like so far is when you type commands it is just like using the boolean lister in Maya or TAB in nuke or houdini where you start typing and the list of possible entries comes up.

$50 but pretty darn useful.

#3

For text editing, Sublime Text.
For IDE (project based), PyCharm.
Both have color schemes that are easily editable, and a big online range to choose from and download.

David

#4

I use same setup as well as Charcoal. Charcoal is great since it will allows me copy and paste code from PyCharm. Maya’s default editor will not. Rrrrrr.Super annoying.

#5

I use sublime, not 100% happy with it but too lazy to look for another

#6

The copy and paste limitation between pycharm and maya is almost funny. Maya is the only place that pasting from pycharm does not work. :banghead: My work around is free app called “ditto”, which is a reasonably powerful clipboard manager. In ditto I assign “ctrl-shift–v” as a keyboard shortcut for pasting “position 1”. After a short while you just remember pasting in maya script editor is ctrl-SHIFT-v and its smooth sailing again.

David