On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 16:51, keshava singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> hi friends > my students used to make C programs using TURBO C++ in > windows environment. I want to motivate them to do it in LINUX environment. > But the problem is that > they find TC convenient because they can easily get help about any library > function by just typing some part of the function's name and right clicking > that. Even they can find examples about the functions. > Is it possible to find such kind of help in LINUX > environment specially in UBUNTU 10.04? > > I know there's been lot of replies till now, but I really couldn't find where to fit this in except as a reply to the very first mail. So, here goes. What you are looking for is more like an IDE. Hoping not to start a flame, I suggest you take a look at GNU emacs or Xemacs. Both are pretty good: 1. Great editor to edit code (syntax highlighting, auto indentation, code folding etc) 2. If man pages are installed, you could map "M-x man" to F1 (maybe) and just by placing your cursor under a function, you can get its man page. I have read the issues with man pages, and I agree that you don't have examples, but then examples are to be given in class not during a hands on - here you do the mistake, burn your fingers, correct it and gain useful experience and C functions are anyway not so cryptic that you need examples showing their use. 3. Find , replace, regexp find/replace are easy to master 4. cscope/TAGS search available for projects 9its good to inculcate these at an early stage) 5. Version control integration 6. Compile/debug integration thorugh "M-x compile" and "M-x gdb" 7. If you still need it, you have a shell mode 8. And if you are incurably "vi" sick, you have a (poisonous) Viper mode (which warns you of the Carnal sin you are about to commit and tells you how to quit, the most likable "Esc Esc Esc :q!") The documentation is rich and the learning curve is relatively easy as it is a modeless editor (no insert/append mode, edit mode, command mode etc) And you could as well work in other programming languages too. And those who are interested can even make their Elisp scripts/snippets, and scripting for sure is not easy an easy task in "Vi/gvim" AFAIK (do correct me if I am wrong here) > -- > thanks and regards > > KESHAVA PRATAP SINGH > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > -- Lots o' Luv, Phani Bhushan Let not your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right - Isaac Asimov (Salvor Hardin in Foundation and Empire) Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
