This is a followup to issue 9893.  There should be a section on vim in the devguide just like there is currently a section on emacs.

The Misc/TextMate directory was also removed.  I wonder if what we really want is an 'editor support' chapter that lists best practice for any editor any committers use (and are willing to write the section for).

I think there should not be any section about any editor in the devguide. It's beyond scope, and it risks going stale.

We have pointers to external resources all over the docs.  Yes, they go stale sometimes, and when somebody notices, we update them.  "What do you use for development" is a common topic of discussion, so I don't see any reason not to include some pointers in the devguide.  (Not tutorials, just pointers to resources.)

I don't think the devguide is a good place for this unless some editors support features that are particularly interesting for CPython development (e.g. something to check refleaks).
If the features are generic enough that any Python programmer would find them interesting, something could be said in the Python FAQs [0] or the wiki [1].  The FAQs already mention this briefly and have a link to the wiki.

[0]: http://docs.python.org/3/faq/general.html
[1]: https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEditors

The emacs page (http://docs.python.org/devguide/emacs.html) could also be moved outside the devguide.

I’m not opposed to the short page about Emacs currently in the devguide, and a similar page about vim could be useful (the default settings for indentation are bad), but I’m also not opposed with merging the contents into the wiki page about editors and just including a link to that from devguide and/or Python docs.

Antoine: you’re one of the people thinking the devguide is already too big; what’s your opinion on this?

I agree with Ezio. Also, editor support is a moving target, and our guidelines may actually become obsolete.

Alright.

removing emacs from the devguide

Im am certainly new at this, so if this is incorrect please provide feedback.

Thanks!  To complete the patch, you should also delete the emacs.rst file (patches created by Mercurial can represent file creation and deletion, not only changes).  The deleted content need to be added to the Python wiki (see link to the PythonEditors page in a previous message).

Patch should be fixed now and remove emacs.rst file.

It seems to me that the Emacs information that is being deleted is already in the wiki.

https://wiki.python.org/moin/EmacsEditor

Ideally, the information should exist on the wiki (so it can easily be kept up-to-date) and the devguide should link to it (so new devs can find the resource).

New changeset a79c7088ed10 by Ezio Melotti in branch 'default':
#20062: replace emacs page of the devguide with a link to the PythonEditors wiki page.  Initial patch by Albert Looney.
http://hg.python.org/devguide/rev/a79c7088ed10

Fixed, thanks for the patch!