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Why are we taking C/C++ programming advice from somebody who has been doing it for just over a year? And not to troll, but anyone who honestly believes vim is a better development environment than one of the mature Linux IDEs (Eclipse, Code::Blocks, KDevelop) is an idiot.
And this is coming from an emacs user ;)
Why are we taking C/C++ programming advice from somebody who has been doing it for just over a year? And not to troll, but anyone who honestly believes vim is a better development environment than one of the mature Linux IDEs (Eclipse, Code::Blocks, KDevelop) is an idiot.
Anybody who thinks that a text editor is better than an IDE is an idiot? I think not.
Why are we taking C/C++ programming advice from somebody who has been doing it for just over a year? And not to troll, but anyone who honestly believes vim is a better development environment than one of the mature Linux IDEs (Eclipse, Code::Blocks, KDevelop) is an idiot.
And not to respond to your troll, but a lot of the more senior devs on my project (10, 15+ years) as just as efficient in vim/emacs as they would be in Eclipse. I don't think there's a one-IDE-fits all solution. Vim is certainly capable if you're willing to learn it.
This is a nice list! However, I really think that increasing speed of development with better tools is a cornerstone of being one of those elite programmers, and vim<<eclipse, at least for Java! I haven't done C/C++ for some time... but I expected similar IDEs exist. "The way our development environment is set up though, there was really no good way to use Eclipse because everything is done on a remote development bo…
Unfortunately, your expectations would not be met. IDEs make up for their limited text-editing features by providing language-dependent, code-aware functionality. Because C++ is such a hairy language, IDEs aren't able to do much with it. They don't give you anything like the cushy, comprehensive support that IDEs provide for Java. With C++, giving up the relatively lame IDE features to get a powerful text editor is a…
Worse is NOT Better; use a safe and high-performance programming language and learn its foreign-function interface to call out to C and C++. Life is too short for core-dumps and premature optimization, plus you only have two feet to shoot at. The better designed a language the better its development process feels. You can get immersed in a lowly Lisp, J, or Forth listener. Just a little black xterm with nothing else…
I didn't really mean for this to be a battle of which language is better, although I prefer not to use a screwdriver for a nail -- I'm doing systems level/kernel programming, so C makes a lot of sense.
When I wrote kernel modules I used C; today I'm writing an in-memory cache for a mulithreaded webserver. It has to maintain user-sesions in memory across several load-balancing servers. It has a multi-stage storage system. It has a queue manager that maintains a private queue for all concurrent users of the system; everything dynamically scheduled in realtime with a bunch of matrix munching algorithms. Allot of intricate stuff that I would have written in C when I didn't know better.
I would still write C code though, but only if I absolutely must, as in your case.
Regards.
I use "screen" a lot, but I wish it had a better name. It helps if you search for "gnu-screen", but not much. Here's a tip that has saved me once or twice. If you start a long-running process, but forgot to use screen or nohup, bash lets you 'disown -h' its jobspec.
One day I took the time to work this out for my .screenrc, and it's served me well since: # Set up my status line at the bottom of every frame caption always "%{gb} %{ck}%m-%d %C %{gb} %{gb}%?%-Lw%?%{ck}%n*%f %t%?(%u)%?%{gb}%?%+Lw%?" All of the %{gb} things are color codes. It looks like this: http://shenani.gen.nz/~scott/screen-statusbar.png Binding ! @ # etc. to select 10, 11, 12, ... is handy, too.
Why are we taking C/C++ programming advice from somebody who has been doing it for just over a year? And not to troll, but anyone who honestly believes vim is a better development environment than one of the mature Linux IDEs (Eclipse, Code::Blocks, KDevelop) is an idiot.
ssh me@mysite.com
$ screen -x
Even the cursor stays where it was between sessions.
How can I do that with ${IDE}?
Anyone else find themselves typing this way too often?: awk '{print $2}' Is there a way to achieve this that's easier to type?
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Ctags is just as accurate at scanning C declarations as an IDE, and with a bit of vim magic, it even auto-updates when you save files. One thing to realize is that vim IS an IDE of sorts. Only, it's far more extensible for the same effort. (although, from my brief forays with emacs, emacs certainly beats vim for extensibility)
Emacs also supports ctags. I didn't find it very useful with C++ though, which is my usual language, since it didn't autocomplete member functions - I think it's supposed to work, though I couldn't be pushed to tweak it. Cscope, as commented on the article's website, sounds quite interesting too.
ctags -R --c++-kinds=+p --fields=+iaS --extra=+q .
Anyone else find themselves typing this way too often?: awk '{print $2}' Is there a way to achieve this that's easier to type?