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OKay I wanted to get some feed back on a good linux based text editor. I hear emacs is great but it seems like a big pain to learn, and besides I'm not too sure about learning a programing language to write in another language.
I do most of my hand code in C++ and was wondering what is a good GUI based emacs alternative. The way I have been doing it, is using MS visual C++ for text editing and compiling with g++ on my linux box over a networkdrive. I really like the pull down menus for member functions with this editor and was wondering if there is a linux editor and that does anything similar.
Anyways I want to know what people hear at the forums think. ANy feed back would be great
hi, don't know exactly what you mean with- learning a programing language to write in another language-
emacs is not gui based but is very good for programming cause it enlightens the reserved words, I mean, private, public, void, ..., and formats this--> {} kind of things so that you can see if one of them is missing or not.
I think is not difficult to use, just edit a program with emacs an you'll see.
kdevelop (which comes with KDE) or jEdit (http://www.jedit.org) are both good. KDevelop is a little more heavy duty, in that everything is there from the get go, whereas jedit needs to have plug-ins installed (for project management for instance).
Overall, i prefer jEdit, for the simple reason, it doesn't try to do things for me, unless i tell it to. KDevelop i've never really gotten into since it seems a little imposing, and more C / C++ oriented (jEdit is mainly java oriented). I guess it's what you get used to.
In your case, i guess KDevelop will be familiar, in my case, coming from JBuilder, jEdit was more familiar (and having developed a program using jEdit's code meant i was familiar with all it could do)
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