[ale] IDE (Intergrated development environment)

[Clay Lawrence]

I'll second and third the motion on Nedit. It supports around fifteen
languages, offers syntax highlighting, auto-indentation, programmable key
sequences and much more. A great X editor for programming.

I would still suggest you learn Vi, and emacs if you want. The one reason you
should probably learn to at least move around a little in Vi is that it will
fit on a floppy and emacs won't. When you floppy boot a crashed system you
know you can get to Vi to fix things if you have it on a floppy, can't do
this with emacs.If not Vi, learn any other nonX editor that you can fit on a
floppy and keep the floppy with your emergency boot disk. According to
Murphy, if you do this you'll never need it, if you don't you'll wish you had
:-)

Clay

John Mills 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.
>
> Tri -
>
> I tried xwpe, but found it [at the time - 3 years or so ago] a bit
> unstable and not much functional help. You might look into Nedit, which
> can (I understand) be built with LessTif, and which has grown a number of
> 'coder friendly' features.
>
> The thing which makes Emacs worth the learning curve for me is it's
> support of _lots_ of languages. If you start it under X11, you get good
> Mouse support and pull-down menus, softening the learning curve. I have
> heard much good for Xemacs, but not used it.
>
> Regards, John Mills