From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jorgen Grahn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs as a C Programming IDE Configuration? Date: 27 Apr 2011 09:11:22 GMT Message-ID: References: <430fcda1-6ad7-4078-baf8-58608a30c302@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306267760 12178 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2011 20:09:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 20:09:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 24 22:09:16 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QOxul-0006S7-67 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 22:09:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52208 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QOxuk-0002gl-LL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 16:09:14 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 41 Original-X-Trace: individual.net NLJFj7acx1Bt8SO7ZbuSVAI+j1fetCkJwXbdWwgCUe7+/0s6Ee Cancel-Lock: sha1:4IcOWIteIHkaQluA/mKY/bUcbWc= User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:186729 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:81056 Archived-At: On Wed, 2011-04-27, haziz wrote: > I use emacs as my main IDE for programming in C. I am exploring ways > of configuring emacs to function more as an IDE rather than as a > simple text editor. Emacs *isn't* a simple text editor. But it works differently from whatever IDE you are used to. > Of course I want syntax highlighting (global-font-lock-mode 1) if it isn't already enabled by default. > and preferably some code completion. M-x dabbrev-expand or M-/ Not quite code completion, but more general and IMO more useful. > I also want separate buffers to allow shell commands and to M-x > compile. These exist already. M-x compile opens a buffer if needed; before that you don't need it. > I want it to open into this > multi-buffer form automatically when visiting a C source file, rather > than having to launch each buffer separately. I get the feeling you have other requirements which I haven't understood yet. Doing one 'M-x shell' doesn't seem to me like something that has to be automated. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn O o .