Thread: The best (according to you) C Develpment Environment

Dear,

what's the best DE for C, according to you?

- F -

Win: notepad++ - *nix: vim

Ok i'm joking and not, but i ended up editing my files more in NP++ than in VS
And it seems that the autotools combine well with say... about 7 or 8 Gnome Terminals all running vim, with split windows multiple buffers and 2, 21" wide screens... not that i have anything like that but it's a nice dream.

I prefer vim. I use this on both OS X and Windows (gvim).

emacs + gcc + gdb

I have noticed notepad++ can screw up sometimes when you have the window spit and it will
reload the wrong file into a window. I still us it though.
Also it can be slow with very large files if you do a big modification, but having said that it's a lot better than the opposition!!

Visual Studio.

vim. Once you get good at it, you can program almost twice as fast as you can with Visual Studio. The problem is that it takes about a year to get good at it =/

Code::Blocks (nightly build!) is pretty nice, lots of features and very customizable. On Linux I like Geany.

If you want just an editor, I use Crimson Editor, you can just create user tools to do certain tasks and assign an hotkey. For example to compile/build/capture output I just press CTRL+1. Notepad++ is nice too, but it didn't win me over.

edlin

Originally Posted by cpjust

edlin

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All I use is notepad++ and a compiler, djgcc or whatever its called.
However problem is I have a create a new batch file each time.
I would like to be ablel to just click on the file to compile it.
I think I could do this but I also might one to click on it to edit it

Code:

set DJGPP=C:\DJGPP\DJGPP.ENV
set PATH=C:\DJGPP\BIN;%PATH%

gcc facto.c -o  facto.exe -lm

pause

facto >temp.doc 

pause

Actuaally I don't think I ever click on it to edit it so I can try something like:-
(If I get the sysntax right)

Code:

set DJGPP=C:\DJGPP\DJGPP.ENV
set PATH=C:\DJGPP\BIN;%PATH%

gcc %1 -o  %1.exe -lm

pause

%1.exe >temp.doc 

pause

There is a slight problem that the executable is called facto.c.exe
and I wanted just facto.exe



But it does work and I can now get rid of dozens of batch files from when I had one per program.

I have now created my own development enviroment and it is the best!!

I guess I can find a way of striping off the unnecessary ".c" but maybe I won't bother,
I think its a rather nice convention!!

It helps distinguish my brilliant programs from the cr*p produced by Microsoft and other
developers

Sounds like you need makefile capability. That would be a reason to get an IDE, unless you would rather write one yourself, and plug the compiler in as a component.

Or maybe - "simpler" - you could write make for yourself, or use cygwin, or something like that.