[Discuss] IDE for GNU Makefile auto-tools

[Ben Kallus]

GitHub, who started and currently maintain Atom, have announced that
they're sunsetting it[^1]. This is probably due to Microsoft's acquisition
of GitHub and the runaway success of VSCode. Someone could maintain a fork,
but I don't think the future looks too bright for Atom. Also, in my
experience, Atom's performance is pretty weak (Electron).

Personally, when I want something a little more graphical than neovim, I
turn to Sublime Text. It's not free software, so I'm hesitant to recommend
it, but it's usually good enough to get the job done.

[^1]: https://github.blog/2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom/


On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 11:48 AM Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> I generally prefer to use ATOM https://atom.io/
> It is highly customizable and had add ons for most languages. Essentially
> until I worked for red Hat, I was an emacs user.
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> On Fri, Sep 23, 2022, 11:25 AM <markw at mohawksoft.com> wrote:
>
> > I've been using vi (vim) and GNU make for decades. Through the years,
> I've
> > tried to use an IDE, but they are all so bad for this type of project.
> > Every IDE I've used has had a very proprietary view of how it should do
> > projects. There was one on Windows years ago called CodeWright which was
> > pretty good.
> >
> > Before all that I used brief.
> >
> > Are there any IDEs that are easy to use and just a simple "drop in" to
> the
> > work flow?
> >
> > I'd like an IDE that can run make, parse the compiler output, find the
> > errors, and open the source file at the location of the error?
> >
> > I looked at KDevelop, and in 5.2 it doesn't even seem to allow you to
> edit
> > the project build tools any more.
> >
> > Any suggestions, and no, Eclipse is not an option.
> >
> > Lastly, I know I can do a lot of this with vim, ctags, etc. but I would
> > like to use some more modern tools and maybe make life a little easier.
> >
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