[NTLUG:Discuss] generic IDE

[Stephen Davidson]

Johnny Cybermyth wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a good generic IDE.  I'm programming embedded C 
> and want to call my compiler from within the IDE and get all of the 
> output back.    I also want file/buffer tabs for multiple file editing 
> and the ability to open multiple file in a group(usually called a 
> project or workspace).  Of course, I'd like syntax highlighting and 
> intelligent indentation.  I don't need anything like gtk widget 
> support or graphical interface generation support.  Just editing text 
> files and producing a output hex file.
>
> This is all normal IDE stuff, but I haven't found one that works for 
> me yet.  Gedit doesn't support projects and the shell plugin just flat 
> doesn't work.  SciTE is good in windows but the linux version doesn't 
> support tabs and is very tedious to configure simple things like font 
> size.
>
> I was thinking about going back to emacs, but I thought that there 
> would be a more modern solution out there.
>

Eclipse (http://eclipse.org) was written by IBM C/C++ Developers to 
replace VisualAge, and while they were at it, Java's Swing Toolkit.  Its 
Open Source.  The C/C++ tools seem to be fairly decent when I used them 
(mind you, I was doing some Java/C interfaces at the time).  The Java 
Platform on this tool simply rocks, according to the downloads.  Let me 
know if you have trouble downloading (the site is frequently slammed).  
Note: For Java Development, you need a JDK to run Eclipse.  Don't know 
about C/C++ development.

Regards,
Steve

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