[ILUG] linux programming

[John P . Looney]

On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 09:31:32PM +0100, Stephen Shirley mentioned:
> I don't know much about programming in Linux,
> but there is a nice gui borland-like IDE
> (integrated devloepment enviroment :-)
> in Linux - it's called xwp (or somat like that)

 True, but it's horrible.

 It depends on how much you want to spend, and how much you want to learn.

 Vim - hard learn, confusing modal editor. Brilliant. My second favourite.
    http://www.vim.org - just an editor, but there is some stuff to read in
    compiler errors & bring you to where the problems are.
 XEmacs - middling to learn. To do advanced stuff, a small knowledge of the
    LISP language would be good, but not needed. I used to use it before
    Vim was good - it's more than an editor & has GDB/GCC integrated
    http://www.xemacs.org
 CodeWarrior - apparently brilliant, but not out just yet. In the works.
    http://www.metrowerks.com
 Visual Slickedit - Excellent, but £120 or so - just an editor
    http://www.sickedit.com (demo for linux/windows availible)

 kide and gide are a pair of free IDEs in the works. Neither are worth
using though. Advice - when wondering "what package can do..." go to
http://freshmeat.net & use the search. It indexes hundreds of packages a
month & will tell you where to get their homepages, or latest versions.

Kate

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