I downloaded the .pdf version of "Thinking in C++" and I've begun to read that and I did yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' I'm a Newbie Desktop user, jumping into the deep end of the pool. Should I try to learn vi (Vim) (which obviously will help me, if I ever need to administer a remote box) or install Emacs or something else, for the gcc editor? An easy learning curve is strongly preferred, but, I am 100% aware of the advantages of vi. Recommendations? TIA!
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:04:16 -0500 Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:> Should I try to learn > vi (Vim) (which obviously will help me, if I ever need to > administer a remote box) or install Emacs or something else, > for the gcc editor?That's the sort of question where, if you ask ten people for their opinion, you will get sixteen different answers. At least. I personally use either vi or nedit, depending on what the current environment is and what I'm trying to accomplish. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
Nifty Cluster Mitch
2008-Aug-10 23:19 UTC
[CentOS] gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?)
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 05:04:16PM -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:> > I downloaded the .pdf version of "Thinking in C++" and I've > begun to read that and I did > yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' I'm a Newbie Desktop > user, jumping into the deep end of the pool. Should I try to learn > vi (Vim) (which obviously will help me, if I ever need to > administer a remote box) or install Emacs or something else, > for the gcc editor? An easy learning curve is strongly preferred, > but, I am 100% aware of the advantages of vi. Recommendations? > TIA!gvim There is almost no pain if you stick with gvim (vim). The help is full of helpfull stuff, the mouse works, syntax and keyword aware.... You might also look at Eclipse. -- T o m M i t c h e l l Got a great hat... now what.
Lanny Marcus wrote:> I downloaded the .pdf version of "Thinking in C++" and I've > begun to read that and I did > yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' I'm a Newbie Desktop > user, jumping into the deep end of the pool. Should I try to learn > vi (Vim) (which obviously will help me, if I ever need to > administer a remote box) or install Emacs or something else, > for the gcc editor? An easy learning curve is strongly preferred, > but, I am 100% aware of the advantages of vi. Recommendations? > TIA! > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >Hi, I suggest to install Eclipse and CDT plugin and you get a full IDE http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/ BR Vaclav
mcedit "yum install mc" and you can start using it. Can't get more intuitive than that. I use it for PHP and C programming, and shell scripting. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/
On 08/10/08 15:04, Lanny Marcus wrote:> I downloaded the .pdf version of "Thinking in C++" and I've > begun to read that and I did > yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' I'm a Newbie Desktop > user, jumping into the deep end of the pool. Should I try to learn > vi (Vim) (which obviously will help me, if I ever need to > administer a remote box) or install Emacs or something else, > for the gcc editor? An easy learning curve is strongly preferred, > but, I am 100% aware of the advantages of vi. Recommendations? > TIA!I'm a Vim user myself, but I noticed one of our engineers using an editor which looked pretty nice. It's called "geany": http://geany.uvena.de/ Looks like DAG has packaged it: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/geany/ -- Tim Utschig <tim at magnumsemi.com> 408-934-3754 (desk) 408-644-3861 (cell)
Lanny Marcus wrote:> > Thank you! gvim is slick. As you wrote, it has lots of help > and it will be easy to learn how to use vi, by learning on gvim. > Better than holding a cheat sheet or having a book open, trying > to figure out what to do, when learning.There is a nice vi cheatsheet available here: http://downloads.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=172404 The help in gvim is nice, but a good cheatsheet is more convenient when you are just looking for a simple command. -- Bowie