This tutorial was updated in May 2014.   There are many choices when it comes to deciding on an IDE.  At the time when I decided on Eclipse (back in 2005) I needed an editor that could do the following: useable across multiple platforms supported programming in Python, C++, mel...

jEdit is a great text editor. It is much more than just a text editor though. Through various plugins and macros, jEdit can be integrated into Maya and function as a full featured programming environment. And jEdit will function on every operating system that Maya does so its easy to use wherev...