IDE's and contributions

[Sirridan]

Hello, I'm a recent linux convert, and while my computers both still have win7, I find I'm liking linux a bit more and more every day. Anyway, does anyone have a good recommendation for an IDE for c development? I've been using Visual studio at work and home and I would rather not use eclipse.

Thanks for suggestions, I hope I can contribute something meaningful to V soon.

[Magnate]

Hello, I'm a recent linux convert, and while my computers both still have win7, I find I'm liking linux a bit more and more every day. Anyway, does anyone have a good recommendation for an IDE for c development? I've been using Visual studio at work and home and I would rather not use eclipse.

Thanks for suggestions, I hope I can contribute something meaningful to V soon.

What's wrong with eclipse?? It's the one used by most linux devs I know. (Personally I don't bother with this new-fangled "gooey" stuff, I write aliases for grep to do what I want it to do from a command line, and do my coding in nano.)

[Sirridan]

What's wrong with eclipse?? It's the one used by most linux devs I know. (Personally I don't bother with this new-fangled "gooey" stuff, I write aliases for grep to do what I want it to do from a command line, and do my coding in nano.)

Eclipse is fine, I should probably spend more time learning it though.

On another note, how does one write aliases for grep? I've just recently discovered how useful that command can be.

[Derakon]

alias egrep='grep -E'

Stick that into your .login file and it'll get evaluated every time you log in.

Personally I use vim for my development work, with, yes, a large helping of grep. I don't use aliases though.

[Magnate]

I use

alias grip='grep -r --exclude-dir=.svn --exclude=*.o'

and I stick it in ~/.bashrc

YMMV

[d_m]

As long as we're all showing off:

I use a shell script called sgrep which handles these issues in a pretty nice way:

#!/bin/sh
grep --binary-files=without-match \
    --exclude-dir=CVS \
    --exclude-dir=.svn \
    --exclude-dir=.hg \
    --exclude-dir=.git \
    --exclude '*~' \
    --exclude '.#*' \
    --exclude '#*' \
    --exclude '*-' \
    "$@"

I prefer not to hardcode -r since sometimes I'm only interested in the current directory. I also prefer to exclude all binary files rather than just "*.o" explicitly.

[KarlM]

I include --color and -n in my alias. Nice --binary-files switch!

EDIT: vim for my IDE

[Sirridan]

Some nifty things there, thank ya much, ill mess around and see what I like. For sure using vi(m) though, its been a blast using it so far.

[Magnate]

I am outgrepped!

[Nick]

I am outgrepped!

Me too, massively. Can I start an emacs/vi war now?

[Marble Dice]

emacs/vi war now?

nano 4 lyfe

[PowerDiver]

Me too, massively. Can I start an emacs/vi war now?

Only if you are suitably crazy.

I heard about someone who made emacs his default *shell*. That's true love. Can you imagine such dedication?

I always figured the original rogue was meant to teach people to use the vi movement keys. I suppose some would reverse that implication.

[Nick]

Only I heard about someone who made emacs his default *shell*.

Yes, I've heard of that too - I'm not nearly that hard core. I also know someone who does everything in a series of 'screen's...

[d_m]

screen(1) cures the blind, heals the sick and *slays* dragons.

[fizzix]

Only if you are suitably crazy.

I heard about someone who made emacs his default *shell*. That's true love. Can you imagine such dedication?

I always figured the original rogue was meant to teach people to use the vi movement keys. I suppose some would reverse that implication.

Was it Richard Stallman?

Having had several conversations with the guy, I'm convinced he is the most socially awkward person I have ever met...