RE: Codewarrior / CodeFusion / emacs / make
Hi-
When I started programming under Linux 2 years ago after 14 years on
the Macintosh, I was thrilled that Metrowerks ported their
CodeWarrior IDE to Linux, because it is the most popular IDE on the
Mac and is awesome there.
I was dissapointed, to say the least, with CodeWarrior for Linux (It
is sold "for RedHat Linux", if that gies you a clue). First off, it
is buggy, and windows do screwey stuff, menus disspaear for no
reason, etc. Also, it is such a quick and dirty port that all the
project files are in Apple FS format, so you get all these darned
.AppleDouble directories every where. It refused to access shared
drives over SAMBA, mistaking dirs for files (!!??!!) A bug-fix
release thwey sent me had no effect on these problems. On the good
side, if you are used to the Mac UI and Codewarrior in partucular,
you are up and running in 10 minutes, literally. It aslo does not
read or write makefiles. I abandoned it.
Next I got the Cygnus Code fusion IDE (DO NOT BE CONFUSED - The
Cygnus "GNU Pro Toolkit" does *NOT* include an IDE). It is OK, but
the UI is from another planet. I gave up on it, but my coworkers are
sticking with it, liking it more than CodeWarrior.
I tried learning emacs, but the key mappings are so strange I spent
more time reading the emacs manual and writing lisp code to configure
the darned thing than I spent writing C. Ditched that.
I myself have ended up ordering the GNU Make book, and using the
"Advanced Editot" in KDE (kwrite), which is a pretty good editor for
C code. A couple of instances of kwrite open with source, and an
xterm so I can type "make" ,and I am happy in my own little IDE. My
advice is find an editor you like, and learn Make!
There ares several GPL'd IDES I have heard of, but I don't recall any by name.
--Pete
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