Re: IDE versus emacs

[Ken Goldman]

On 10/4/2012 12:48 PM, Wally Lepore wrote:
> Text Editor: emacs
> GUI Builder: GTK+2 or Glade
> Compiler: MinGW
> Debugger: ?

gdb

> Linker: ?
> Standard "C" Library: ?

come with Windows

At some point, you want to get 'make', which automates the compile/link 
steps.  Any serious project needs a build program.

~~

This is heresy on an emacs list (hence the private email), but I don't 
think emacs is a very good debugger.  I certainly use it for all my 
editing in all languages, but not for debugging.

On Windows, I use either Eclipse or MS Visual C++.  Both have a learning 
curve and some setup for each project, but then they work well.

On Linux, I use ddd (a GUI front end to gdb.)  The UI isn't as polished 
as the Windows programs, but it requires zero configuration.