Looking for good code editors or IDEs (supporting Java, C/C++)

phobos

Right I got a pretty solid development environment setup for myself. But I don't seem to have any decent editors. I am looking for something with the good kind of trimmings (syntax highlighting, auto block alignment, popup class info [ie jbuilder/forte], etc). Most importantly it must be free, but that shouldn't be a problem since it's going to be running on linux. I've been to the likes of freshmeat and was overwhelmed at the amount of stuff under GNU, but the vast amount of software made it more difficult to find the right one.

So my question to the masses lies in which development environment (editor or complete IDE) works best for you under linux? (considering java, c/c++ are my languages of choice).

Cheers, and advTHANKSance

;-phobos-)

flamegrill

VIM

its syntax highlighting is just terriffic


get it from here http://www.vim.org/download.php

Regards,

Paul

phobos

Thanks for that, but I checked it out and it wavers from my vision of a perfect development tool (I can be picky ).

Anyway, what I was looking for was something lightweight, with all the trimmings. So what I got was jEdit 4.0.3 along with a few plugins. The app is open source and was coded in Java, and suits me down to the ground. It has some nifty features that I wouldn't exactly call RAD tools, but do make the code much easier to read. But a lot of the plugins try and push the app from editor to IDE status, and fail miserably. But still it's pretty damn good for about 2MB of space (including plugins).

You can get it @: www.jedit.org
and I came across it @: software.linux.com

;-phobos-)

Lemming

Try DevC++. it can be found on Source Forge

I think that the linux version is available on beta. The Windows version is really quite good

Cond0r

Originally posted by flamegrill
VIM

its syntax highlighting is just terriffic


get it from here http://www.vim.org/download.php

Regards,

Paul

Gotta agree with that, I think vim is great for writing any sort of code.

C.

Trojan

Weston,

I used KDevelop to do some C stuff in college, it was pretty cool to use, nice step-through/over - all the debug stuff you expect in an IDE. Nice. Do a search on this and the programming board for "KDevelop" and you should find an earlier post of mine on it, dunno where it is (link here if you find it to be of use).

Cheers,
Al.

Robbo

If vim does your head in, in the way that only vi can do...

Try jed, a good text editor with all the syntax highlighting features of vim, but based on emacs and easy to use

phobos

After an evening of scouring the web, I've managed to get myself a copy of JBuilder 7. I have plenty of experience with earlier versions, and I will admit adapting to the latest version doesn't take a lot of effort.

It has everything I could ask for in a Java IDE, including some seriously kewl editor enhancements.

Al, I will check out that KDevelop program. Sounds like a KDE app (and I like Gnome :rolleyes: ). Actually I think I have it on CD here somewhere, but I've never actually used it.

cheers

;-phobos-)

Typedef

Ordinarily I'd say vim.

I know Hongli Lai (Dev-C++ Developer), well I've exchanged email... amenable chap, so I'd also give Dev-C++ a try.