Re: Emacs as a C Programming IDE Configuration?

[Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se>]

On Mon, 2011-05-09, despen@verizon.net wrote:
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> Anyway, just about everything I do is Makefile based.  I see lots of
> people use Makefiles for the compile phase but I find  that the test
> phase is intricately linked to the development phase and I combine both
> operations.

Agreed. "make check" should rebuild the automated tests if needed, and
execute them.

> It works for me and it works well, so I'll continue to push the viewpoint
> unless someone can explain why it's better to jump into M-x shell and
> start firing off random commands

That's quite a big leap from "the Makefile should run the unit tests"
to "there is nothing you may want to do in a shell".

> as if they may never have to issue them again

Modern shells (at least tcsh, bash and zsh) have persistent history
and incremental search.  I rarely have to type a complex command
from scratch, if I did something similar in the past few weeks.

/Jorgen

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