Re: tlug: Hello, I'm a newbie and help!

["Andrew S. Howell" <andy@example.com>]

>>>>> "Manuel" == Manuel Chakravarty <chak@example.com> writes:

    >> After the installation I'll be wanting to write some code. I'm
    >> guessing that the easy to use development environments like VB
    >> and VC++ aren't going to be available for Linux. Am I back in
    >> my University days with a text editor and command line, or are
    >> there less labour intensive solutions? Also, any recommended
    >> books?

    Manuel> You don't have to use `a' text editor, you can use Emacs
    Manuel> :-) It's C/C++-mode is pretty neat (highlighting,
    Manuel> formatting support, and *many* more things) and you can
    Manuel> run gdb (the GNU debugger) as a subprocess plus many Emacs
    Manuel> goodies like dynamic abbrevs, ediff, and stuff.  What else
    Manuel> do you need?

If you want a nice graphical frontend to gdb, dbx etc, check out ddd.

	http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/softech/ddd/

I use version 2.2.3 fairly regularly. 2.99.1 (-> 3.0 ) is out, and
supposed to be lot better. It works with lesstiff or Motif.

Andy
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