[anjuta-list] Anjuta on Ubuntu 10.04, and some general use questions

[Shay Green <gblargg gmail com>]

I'm evaluating Anjuta as a possible IDE to use on Linux and want to 
figure out whether it has any show-stopper limitations. I'm using Ubuntu 
10.04 LTS. Is there any reasonable way to compile/run the latest version 
of Anjuta? Currently I'm using 2.30.1.0 and have not figured out how to 
do the following things:

I tried making a new project, generic (minimal). Then I choose 
Run->Execute and it says the executable doesn't exist. So I choose Build 
Project and it does so without error, but Run->Execute still fails with 
the same error. I tried Build (hello), same. Apparently it's expecting 
the executable in the Debug directory, but that hasn't even been 
created. I do see a hello executable in the top-level project directory. 
I'm puzzled as to this inconsistency. I had to go into Run->Program 
Parameters to set its path properly, then execution works.

Once I have the program running in the built-in terminal, it says I have 
to press a key to exit the program. If I try to run the program again, I 
get a dialog telling me that the previous execution hasn't finished. How 
can I have it just run the program in the terminal, without printing 
anything extra after it exits and requiring that I press a key? I don't 
see any options for the Terminal plugin for this.

With the above project, with the Debug build selected, when I choose 
Debug Program, it asks Are you sure you want to debug a program not 
using the Debug configuration? Why is it saying it's not the debug 
configuration? Then it gives an error in the terminal before the 
debugger stops at my breakpoint: &"warning: GDB: Failed to set 
controlling terminal: Operation not permitted\n" Is there any way to 
hide this error message, so I can just see my program's output?

Can it be used to edit bare-bones projects, not ones with dozens of 
configuration files as are created with a new project? When working on 
projects, I often work on small research programs to try out a 
particular idea in isolation, thus the bloat of all that isn't workable. 
Ideally, there would be nothing besides a couple of source files, and a 
single project file, with Anjuta compiling and linking as necessary.

Is there a single command I can issue that will save all currently open 
source files, rebuild the executable, then run it? The same, but run 
under the debugger? Likewise, and in the terminal plugin in Anjuta's 
window? I want to be able to make changes to some source files, then 
issue a single keyboard command to have it recompiled, rebuilt, and 
executed. It's the IDE's job to initiate each of these steps in order.

Is it possible to have more than one text file visible at the same time? 
For example, editing a source file with a header file open to the left 
of it as reference?

Is it possible to customize the behavior of the home/end/page up/page 
down keys? Specifically, I want them to scroll the document without 
affecting the insertion point, as they do in a web browser for example. 
I couldn't find these in the key bindings list.

Is it possible for a triple-click to select the entire line, including 
newline, so that cutting it won't leave a blank line?

How can color schemes be customized?

Is there any way to configure the smart indent to merely tab the next 
line the same as the current one, nothing more? It seems to add extra 
tabs sometimes, like when hitting return after a {, which is annoying.

Thanks. I'm hoping these can be solved, since this seems a pretty 
lightweight IDE that is very responsive, not sluggish like several 
others I've tried.