DISCUSSION: Emacs for an IDE (1)

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Emacs for an IDE (1)

Brief Programmers newly making their way into the Linux world especially those who acquired their previous experience by working on Windows, seem to have a hard time figuring out how to start building applications for Linux. One question heard often here and there is "What is the best IDE for Linux?". A rather more specific question would be "Is there anything like MS Visual Studio for Linux?". Well,there are actually a bunch of IDEs for Linux. Best known are KDevelop and Anjuta. However these IDEs tend to be rather intimidating. They are a work in progress in so many aspects and getting one of them to work the way you want might be daunting. On the other hand whoever

Thanks for the pointer to the very cool speedbar, I hadn't seen that.

When you do part 2, you should mention debugging with gdb ("M-x gdb" to get started). Also, for c and java programmers there's a program called "xref" that is very helpful (c anyway is helpful, I can't speak for the java support). They also have a version for c++ which is pay-to-use.

I haven't ever seen tutorial info or learned how to use etags/ctags, I think that's relevant to c programmers too, don't know about c++ or other languages.

Codeblocks is a very good IDE.

yes , a good entry article for c development in Linux..

Originally Posted by sogenant I haven't ever seen tutorial info or learned how to use etags/ctags, I think that's relevant to c programmers too, don't know about c++ or other languages.

Yes, the tags feature is useful for c and a variety of other languages too. See the emacs manual's "Tags" node for more information. Ebrowse is another similar (but more powerful) feature for c++ programs specifically.