On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com>wrote:
> On 06/05/13 16:13, David Robinow wrote: > > I certainly agree about IDLE and prefer a text editor myself. I don't >> use Linux much and haven't noticed the "practically an IDE" part. Could >> you expound? >> > > Unix is a software engineers OS. It comes with dozens of tools and they > are nearly all integrated. So for example the text search tool grep can > output its results in the same format as the compiler outputs errors. This > allows text editors to implement features like "goto next error" and "goto > next grep line" using common code. And many different editors use that same > standard format. > > Other tools analyze test coverage, profile execution, monitor system > calls, analyze core dumps etc. Similarly the Unix debuggers tend to have > common mechanisms which make them easy to integrate with editors. > The tags tools allow the OS to build a database of function definitions so > that an editor can jump from a function reference to a function definition > with ease. > > Other OS features like command pipelines, a plethora of scripting > languages, and a gazillion text processing commands all mean Unix can do > most of the tricks modern IDEs do in other platforms. > > The things that are less easy to reproduce tend to be things like > command completion, tooltip help and project creation/maintenance. There > are tools to help with those but not as slick as an IDE. > > Those are some of my favourite "Unix as an IDE" features, I'm sure there > are others I've missed. > You haven't gone into enough detail for me to tell whether I'm missing anything. I'm not understanding what you're saying about grep although I've used next-error with C code in emacs. I never thought tags were worth the trouble although the tools are available on Windows. I should mention that I've been cheating since I use cygwin so I have access to most of the "Unix" text tools on Windows. I've never heard of a scripting language that's not available on Windows. This is all really off-topic for this list so I'll quit now.
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