Re: Is emacs helpful or necessary to gcc programming?

[Ole Laursen]

Jimmerr <jimkkREMOVEME@umich.edu> writes:

> Thanks.  I was referring to things such as being able to debug and 
> compile from within emacs. Is this important?  Do people who write c or 
> c++ programs (especially for palm pilot with PRC tools) use or depend on 
> emacs, and why?

"Why" is of course because Emacs is the best editor ever. Especially
for C and C++.

I can recommend the following lines for your .emacs:

  (global-set-key [f5] 'compile)
  (global-set-key [f6] 'first-error)
  (global-set-key [f7] 'previous-error)
  (global-set-key [f8] 'next-error)

Then press F5 to compile something and then press F6 to get to the
first compile error and F7/F8 to navigate between the following ones.
Very convenient. For debugging, there is 'M-x gdb' which is a little
bit weird to use, though.

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Ole Laursen
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