Re: Which editor for C/C++ programming, and more...

[Cory Watson <gphat mail midtnn net>]

Disclaimer:  I'll intercede now and express my concern that this post was
not meant to start a text editor war;)  To each his own;)

Oh, while I being totally off-topic, why don't you guys make the next
Gnome conference somewhere I can go, that or Miguel can come get me;)

Cory Watson
Systems Administrator
midtnn.net

On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Cory Watson wrote:

> Well hi Germano!;)
> 
> You may want to take a look at gvim, which comes with thte VI text editor,
> although it may not suit you, as it can be rather confusing for the
> beginner.  When you get the hang of it, you will see why we are religous
> about our text editors;)
> 
> As for strip, someone can probably give you more info than me, but to the
> best of my understanding, strip removes alot of debugging information from
> your executables.  I'm sure theres more to it than that, but unless you
> are really really space conscious about your executables, I wouldn't
> worry about it.
> 
> Cory Watson
> Systems Administrator
> midtnn.net
> 
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Germano Rizzo wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >  first, I introduce myself... My name is Germano Rizzo, I'm a 21 y.o.
> > italian student in electronic enineery and I'm new in this list...Recently I
> > passed from KDE to Gnome, and I found it... just great!! :-)) Nice to meet
> > you all!!
> > 
> >     I don't know if my questions are suitable for this list... if not,
> > please tell me. Sometimes I make some C program, just for exercise, or
> > study. Now, using KDE I wrote them in KWrite, that provided two very useful
> > features: sintax highlighting, and the indication of the number of the row
> > where the cursor is. Passing to Gnome, I haven't find anything that makes
> > the same... Now I use Gnotepad+, that, alas, haven't any of these
> > features... I don't want to use EMACS, 'cause it's too complex... I tried
> > XCoral, that hassintax highlighting, but still doesn't tell the row
> > number... Can you advice me for any editor that suits my purposes? Thank you
> > in advance.
> > 
> >     The second question is just a curiosity: I'm quite new to Linux, so I
> > don't know the 'inner' aspects of it... I noticed that using the command
> > 'strip' on the executables and library files, they get very smaller... is it
> > a good idea to do this? Or it will produce instability? Can I compile and
> > install, say, the various gnome packages with
> > 
> > ./configure
> > make
> > find ./ -exec strip {}  \
> > make install
> > 
> >     ? Thanks also for this, any comment will be appreciated... I have plenty
> > of things to learn... :-))
> > 
> >     Sorry if these are off topic, and for the poor english... <:)
> >     Best wishes,
> >         Mano :-))
> > 
> > 
> > 
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