On Tuesday 07 April 2009 08:45:23 Jerry Feldman wrote: > On 04/04/2009 06:56 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > I am starting to learn how to program in C, and I am looking for a > > proper editor for that. Do you recommend Kate to me? Or is there > > something better? > > Time for me to chime in. I have been using EMACs for C and C++ > development for 25 years, and vi even longer. While there are other good > editors, I specifically like emacs (and xemacs) because it innately > knows about make and source control. I work on a system that has over 1 > million lines of code (mostly C++). Note only is there syntax coloring, > but it matches parentheses and curly braces. It also can be set for > automatic indentation (K&R style is the default). Additionally, emacs > supports multiple windows. You can have them line up horizontally or > vertically. Normally, when I do a compile, the compilation results are > displayed in a windows. In addition, the dired feature sets emacs to > behave like a file manager. Additionally, I routinely to finds and > greps. Yes, emacs is not easy to lean, but it is extremely rich, has > modes for most computer languages as well as HTML and XML. While I > certainly am set in my ways, I could not practice my profession as a > software engineer without emacs. But, I don't want to belittle vi and > vim. I use vi especially when accessing files on a non-local server. I also has a speedbar which has helped me work on many files at once. You can download Emacs 23.0 (development version, but pretty fonts!) from here: http://rpm.bradmwalker.com/ add the repository (download and install bmw-release-1-1.fc10.noarch.rpm) and install emacs: $ yum install emacs and run it: $ emacs :) and don't forget to have fun. -- Armin Moradi -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
