Re: Emacs as a C Programming IDE Configuration?

[Richard Riley]

despen@verizon.net writes:

> Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> writes:
>
>> I get the feeling you have other requirements which I haven't
>> understood yet.  Doing one 'M-x shell' doesn't seem to me like
>> something that has to be automated.
>
> More important, a true emacs user has little need for a shell.
>
> The Makefile should launch any tests needed.
>

I dont agree with that sweeping statement at all. I use shell ALL the
time. Possibly you mean dont need the shell for compiling? In that case
I would agree that emacs has enough interfaces to make and gcc format
errors etc to make the shell redundant in that respect.