On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 04:03:13AM +0900, Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> At Tue, 20 Dec 2005 05:20:40 +0900, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > I always just kinda figured that Linux *is* my IDE.
> 
> To quote Sting's famous song "Russians": I don's subscribe to this
> point of view.
> 
> Please recall that IDE means 'integrated development environment'.
> Many attributes apply to Unix as an environment but 'integrated'
> definitely is not among them.
> 
> Let me illustrate this with an example that sometimes make me hack my
> keyboard instead of hacking *on* it:
> 
> For searching forward for some string you may need to use Ctrl-F,
> Ctrl-S or '/' depending on which program you are currently using
> (shell, editor, debugger). Integration on the other hand would require
> that the same operation is always bound to the same keystroke.

Since I'm pretty well dedicated to vim as my primary editor, the same
operation *is* always bound to the same keystroke.  Choosing the
specific tools you use in the Linux IDE is roughly equivalent to
personalizing the settings for a highly configurable IDE product like
Eclipse or Visual Studio.  Well -- maybe not equivalent, but analogous,
at any rate.


> 
> The Emacs operating system and the vim editor are much closer to an
> IDE than Unix.

Combine directory browsing and shell access from within the editor,
and/or additional terminal emulator windows open for more direct shell
access, and you've got all the IDE you need.

-- 
Chad Perrin [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ]

unix virus: If you're using a unixlike OS, please forward
this to 20 others and erase your system partition.