thanx dear Phani Bhusan On 8/4/10, Phani Bhushan Tholeti <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >
-- thanks and regards KESHAVA PRATAP SINGH Entry no. : 2007JCA2227 M Tech in Computer Application Department of Computer Science And Engineering ,Electrical Engineering and Mathematics mob. no.: 9555820839 -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
