From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 9 12:31:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA11162 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 12:31:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jbrann.dialup.access.net (jbrann.dialup.access.net [166.84.193.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA11139 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 12:31:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by jbrann.dialup.access.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA01399; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 15:34:12 -0400 Message-Id: <199606091934.PAA01399@jbrann.dialup.access.net> Subject: Re: C / C++ Programming in FreeBSD To: randyd@nconnect.net (Randy DuCharme) Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 15:34:12 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) In-Reply-To: <31BAAFA2.2781E494@nconnect.net> from Randy DuCharme at "Jun 9, 96 11:04:02 am" From: John Brann Reply-To: John Brann Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL13 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Randy DuCharme wrote... [...] > trying to port some of the apps I've created to freeBSD. Since day 1 of > my programming I've used integrated development environments such as, > Borland's IDE and Microsoft's Visual C++. I'm wondering if there's > anything similar to these for BSD? What are the preferred methods > (environments) of veteran UNIX programmers? In order of preference: 1. emacs 2. emacs 3. emacs :-) I don't know if you have X running, but if you do, xemacs has a nice syntax formatting mode (which happens to C programs by default) which is very reminiscent of the Borland IDE syntax formatter. Having said this, I've never really got used to emacs, I still use vi as my editor. I've set up an X environment using 'xfm', 'vi' and 'xxgdb' which gives me 'drag and drop' access to editors, debuggers and 'make'. Although it tends to create a lot of windows, I find it very comfortable. John -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key