[ale] IDE (Intergrated development environment)

[Mason, Jan]

Learning GNU Emacs, Second Edition, O'Reilly & Associates

> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Bill Ripley [mailto:bripley at ix.netcom.com]
> >Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 7:10 AM
> >To: 
> >Subject: Re: [ale] IDE (Intergrated development environment)
> >
> >
> >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
> >> 
> >====================================================================
> >> Michael Kachline CS, Georgia Institute of Technlology
> >> kachline at brightstar.gt.ed.net
> >> http://brightstar.gt.ed.net/kachline
> >> 
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> >