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  From: Andrew Burrow <alburrow@cs.adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : Steve Maslin <redimpact@start.com.au>
  Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 01:04:40 +0930

Re: C++ with linux

> Im just starting out in linux as some may now know. I'd like to know
> what can I use to write C++.
> Would emacs do this?

Yes!  For some reason it seems to have become a relatively unknown
fact that emacs _is_ an integrated development environment.  Properly
configured emacs provides:

  -	desktops
	automatcially reopen the last session --- one per directory

  -	syntax highlighting for each of the source code file types

  -	automatic code indentation, which is itself a helpful
	syntactical check

  -	compile from within emacs

  -	step through compilation errors in editable source code

  -	debug from within emacs and step through editable source code

  -	read info files and man pages from within emacs

as well as an excellent editor with the rest of the features expected
in an editor --- regular expression search and replace etc , and of
course you can configure all aspects of the editor.

I could send you a copy of my .emacs file if interested.



Cheers,


Andrew

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  + Department of Computer Science,                 "There is no fate that
         University of Adelaide,                      cannot be surmounted
         Adelaide SA 5005, Australia                             by scorn."
  + alburrow@cs.adelaide.edu.au                               Albert Camus

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