Workflow ideas

[TyroSe7en]

Looking practice programming in Fedora 15, I've heard that IDEs aren't really the way to go when it comes to linux and need a workflow to get started since I've pretty much never compiled code outside an IDE, but would like to learn a straight foward system.

I'm mostly interested in C/C++ coding, maybe a bit of D. Gearing towards platform agnostic game development.

[RupertPupkin]

Emacs has pretty much everything you'd need for C and C++. And it has syntax highlighting and a major mode for D code: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DMode

[TyroSe7en]

Cool, had a look at emacs but didn't feel like learning it at the time, any good place to pick up some tuts?

[jarubyh]

If you're not going to use an IDE, Emacs or Vi(m) are pretty much the way to go on any *nix system.
Since you've already shot down Emacs, I'll sell ya Vim. It uses a lot less extra keys than
Escape
Meta
Alt
Control
Shift

And is easy to use with just a few commands you can learn from their quick tutorial. I don't have a lot of experience with the C languages, but it works like a charm for Perl, Ruby and Python.
Good luck.

[TyroSe7en]

Alright I'm actually somewhat familiar with Vi alredy just because I've learned that's it's basically available regardless of what *nix OS your using which makes it rather dependable, but that's just the editor aspect. I'm much more curious about compiling and creating make files, basically the jazz you do when you finish coding or wanna check it for mistakes and such.

Like I said, I've always used an IDE like Visual Studio or MonoDevelop (my primary language so far being C#, but I wish to branch out over to C & C++) so essentially all that second half of the coding process is taken care for me with these. I just hit F5 and bam, here's your errors, warnings and build output. Even launches the app so I can test it. Or I can go Crtl+Shift+B to just do a build and check for errors.

I'm wondering what's the best way to go about manually handling this second half.

[flyingfsck]

I think you are looking for 'geany'.

[tech291083]

Emacs has pretty much everything you'd need for C and C++. And it has syntax highlighting and a major mode for D code: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DMode

Hi,

I just installed Fedora 14 and would love to practise C, C++. But I have never used Emacs. Is it a complete IDE or just a GUI? Please guide me how to install it and whether there is anything else - dependencies or libraries also to be installed with it, thanks.

[RupertPupkin]

I have never used Emacs. Is it a complete IDE or just a GUI? Please guide me how to install it
Emacs can be used as an IDE for several languages. Use yum to install it (as root):
yum install emacs
After installing it, run its built-in tutorial.

[tech291083]

yum install emacs
After installing it, run its built-in tutorial.

Yes, sure I will do so. Hope that with the above yum command all the dependencies are also resolved automatically and it becomes ready to use after installing. Thanks a lot RupertP.