[ale] IDE (Intergrated development environment)

[Bill Ripley]

Can you recommend a good book or howto that is emacs/programming specific?

Mike Kachline wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Tri wrote:
>
> > Ok I just got "The C programming language" from amazon. Now I'm looking
> > for a IDE that I can learn real fast so that I can finally get into
> > learning the language instead of fiddling around with settings. I tried
> > to use emacs, but I don't have the time to learn it.
> <snip>
>
>         My recommendation would be to learn either vim or emacs. However,
> to tide you over in your short term hacking frenzies, search the net for a
> utility called "xwpe". It's got a very Borland'ish look and feel and
> offers spiffy features like pulling up man pages for whatever function
> your cursor is currently over on "F1", color syntax highlighting, and so
> forth.
>
>         ...I'm serious about the vi / emacs part though. Take the time to
> learn one or the other. The longer you continue running Unix, the more you
> will realize how these two packages are very nicely integrated for the
> environment. (I especially like emacs' feature of being able to do CVS
> checkins, checkouts and so forth).
>
>                                                         - Mike
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> Michael Kachline CS, Georgia Institute of Technlology
> kachline at brightstar.gt.ed.net
> http://brightstar.gt.ed.net/kachline
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