From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: IDE versus emacs Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:00:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349456483 15664 80.91.229.3 (5 Oct 2012 17:01:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 17:01:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 05 19:01:30 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TKBHE-0005Q1-DQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:01:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40173 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKBH8-0004om-MS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:01:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36333) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKBGz-0004of-Oe for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:01:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKBGu-0003gc-Vj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:01:13 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42733) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKBGu-0003gU-Oo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:01:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TKBGx-0005Ft-AH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:01:11 +0200 Original-Received: from yktgi01e0-s4.watson.ibm.com ([129.34.20.23]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:01:11 +0200 Original-Received: from kgoldman by yktgi01e0-s4.watson.ibm.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:01:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: yktgi01e0-s4.watson.ibm.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:87090 Archived-At: On 10/4/2012 12:48 PM, Wally Lepore wrote: > > Text Editor: emacs > GUI Builder: GTK+2 or Glade > Compiler: MinGW > Debugger: ? gdb > Linker: ? > Standard "C" Library: ? come with Windows At some point, you want to get 'make', which automates the compile/link steps. Any serious project needs a build program. ~~ This is heresy on an emacs list (hence the private email), but I don't think emacs is a very good debugger. I certainly use it for all my editing in all languages, but not for debugging. On Windows, I use either Eclipse or MS Visual C++. Both have a learning curve and some setup for each project, but then they work well. On Linux, I use ddd (a GUI front end to gdb.) The UI isn't as polished as the Windows programs, but it requires zero configuration.