Learning C++ with Emacs?

Learning C++ with Emacs?

[Cecil]

I will be starting C++ at my school. I moved to linux about 4 months
ago. I have been using Pico, but have decided to give Emacs a shot as
my editor for C++. The idea is that I will be using the console for
most things; I will be using a very very old laptop, that Emacs will
run on with no problem it seems. I ordered the Learning GNU Emacs book
from O'rielly, and would like comments or opinions or whatever from
y'all. I will be learning C++ from the very beginning. The teacher
wants to use Visual C++, but I have a ancient machine, I run Linux,
and if I have to, I'll just email source to myself at school. Am I
making a mistake choosing to learn Emacs to learn C++? I have heard it
refered to as a dinosaur whose time has come and gone, but I can't
really run X well. So, I have to broaden my mind and leave
preconceived ideas and notions behind.

Many thanks,

Cecil

Re: Learning C++ with Emacs?

[David Kastrup]

xeys_00@yahoo.com (Cecil) writes:

> I have been using Pico, but have decided to give Emacs a shot as my
> editor for C++. The idea is that I will be using the console for
> most things; I will be using a very very old laptop, that Emacs will
> run on with no problem it seems. I ordered the Learning GNU Emacs
> book from O'rielly, and would like comments or opinions or whatever
> from y'all. I will be learning C++ from the very beginning. The
> teacher wants to use Visual C++, but I have a ancient machine, I run
> Linux, and if I have to, I'll just email source to myself at
> school. Am I making a mistake choosing to learn Emacs to learn C++?

Learning Emacs and learning C++ are pretty much independent.  At
least unless you use GCC and glibc, in which case it is worth noting
that Emacs' built-in info reader is one of the handiest tools for
accessing info pages (use C-h S with the cursor on a symbol to find
its info page).  It is also worth noting that the gdb command in
Emacs is quite handy for source code debugging.

> I have heard it refered to as a dinosaur whose time has come and
> gone,

Gone?  Hardly.  It's still quite the killer.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: Learning C++ with Emacs?

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

xeys_00@yahoo.com (Cecil) writes:

> So, I have to broaden my mind and leave
> preconceived ideas and notions behind.

if your mind broad enough, you do not need to leave anything behind.

thi

Re: Learning C++ with Emacs?

[Danny Anderson]

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:18:59 -0700, Cecil wrote:

> and if I have to, I'll just email source to myself at school. Am I
> making a mistake choosing to learn Emacs to learn C++? I have heard it
> refered to as a dinosaur whose time has come and gone, but I can't
> really run X well. So, I have to broaden my mind and leave preconceived
> ideas and notions behind.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Cecil

Emacs is an excellent tool to use while learning to code c++.  There is a
very real learning curve, one that I am quite sure I am still scaling
myself,  but, once you get going, you will find out that you have a very
powerful editor at your command.

It is my choice of editors for coding c++, perl, php and the like.  I
really like the fact that is can be very easy to customize once you learn
how the .emacs file works.

Try it out- it is my opinion that you will learn c++ better by using Emacs
than by using the Visual c++ editor.

Danny