Well, yes, as a matter of fact.  But I didn't want to resurrect  any old
editor wars.   I've lived inside Emacs-based development/debugging
environments for a couple of decades.  Scary, no?

--Doug

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On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Parks, Raymond <[email protected]> wrote:

> An editor like EMACS? That way you never have to use anything else;-)
>
> The one cool thing that Eclipse does is extract embedded system code from a
> JTAG port with a plugin from Greenhills.
>
> Ray Parks
>
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>
> Could someone please remind me again why so many people seem to like
> Eclipse?  A colleague of mine at RTI took one of my distributed C++
> applications and turned it into an Appliance via VMWare (and/or) VirtualBox.
>  All you have to do is run the appliance in a VM and you can emulate running
> distributed applications on a cluster, all the while sitting in front of
> whatever your favorite flavor of OS happens to be.
>
> The virtual machine is Ubuntu with OpenMPI installed, so you can emulate
> bazillions of distributed machines on a single CPU, which is a pretty cool
> and painless development and debugging environment.  In fact the whole
> "Appliance" concept and the way it was implemented is pretty cool -- wish
> I'd thought of it myself.
>
> But, as part of the "Appliancification" process he put my app into Eclipse
> inside the VM, and as I sit here trying to relearn how to navigate around in
> Eclipse I find myself wondering why *anybody* would to prefer to work in
> that IDE straight jacket, rather than just using an editor and Makefiles, as
> Dog intended...
>
> --Doug
>
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