I'm trying geany now, it's light weight and easy to use. working on it. cheers.
On Jan 9, 2008 7:39 PM, Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:44:27 -0800 > Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:30:57PM +0800, Michael Yang > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > Hi all: > > > > > > I'm starting the C++ Developer work on linux, no GUI app involved. > > > > > > Could you tell me what the tools you are working with? > > > > > > I'm trying with g++ and vim. Is there a package containing the help > doc for > > > the library API, like the MSDN on Windows. > > > > Unfortunately, programming documentation on Linux is a bit > > fragmented. You can find quick documentation for the standard C stuff > > in manpages-dev, but that doesn't cover C++. libstdc++6-4.2-doc has > > some documentation for C++ stuff, but for the STL stl-manual. Other > > library documentation tends to be either in -dev packages or in -doc > > packages with a similar name: for instance, ncurses documentation is in > > libncurses5-dev, but cwidget documentation is in libcwidget-doc. > > > > Help for c++ is a bit of a problem. All c stuff has manpages. I usually > just > use google for the references. > > BTW, I find MSDN to be even worse, can't find anything useful in there (at > least it has been so since around vs6 or vs4 don't recall). Nowadays, > google is > much more useful for standard c++ reference. > > For the specific libraries each one has it's own doc, usually in the -doc > package sometimes only on the web, depending on the size and developer. > > For IDE, if you like the modern stuff, then depending in part on your gui > library, the big options are anjuta, kdevelop and eclipse. there are also > some > smaller programmer's editors such as geany and scite. gedit and mousepad > will > also probably work, at least for the small stuff. For the hard core there > is > vim and emacs + ctags/etags and a bunch of other addins. Steep learning > curve > and AFAIK they don't do code completing, but those who know them would > claim > they are much better then the newer options (which one is better is a > holly war > so you probably don't want to ask ;-) > > You will also probably want a debugger. gdb is the defacto linux debugger. > It > is very powerful, but text based so the learning curve is high. There are > numerous gui interfaces. Besides plugins for your favorite ide, two > notable > ones are ddd and insight. > > Daniel > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
