A long time ago (around 2006) I started using Komodo. I started off with the "Edit" version and quickly upgraded to the full IDE. I loved it. As someone else me

A long time ago (around 2006) I started using Komodo. I started off with the "Edit" version and quickly upgraded to the full IDE. I loved it. As someone else mentioned, there's nothing better really for remote dev work. The editor works nicely on Win/OS X/Linux and presents roughly the same behavior on all. For Win it's extremely nice, as it presents an ease of use for remote development that I'd only ever gotten within Linux using ssh. You can edit locally over sftp/ftp/etc. and save just as easily as if you were logged into the remote terminal directly. There are a huge number of features that are useful for Python/Perl (like regular expression checkers) that visually show what you've screwed up within your regex. If you've ever tried to write a regex for something that is especially complex, you'll know what I'm talking about, this is quite a nice feature (perhaps duplicated by some open source tools). Komodo also provides syntax highlighting for quite a few other languages (although,I found it lacked HDL support at the time which I would have liked). It's not just for Python/Perl/Tcl, provides support for C/C++/Java as well (at least it used to, haven't tried in a little over a year). If you're looking for an IDE, I highly recommend this one. It is as simple in appearance as a text editor+++, but in reality is is quite a bit more. It's probably one of the best cross platform editors that I've tried, and I've tried quite a few. Honestly, I use vim almost exclusively these days. If I ever had to go back to developing on a Windows machine, or developing for Python/Perl exclusively I'd definitely consider going back to Komodo more often....