Hi I installed Geany. It works both with Java and C++. Using Geany with GDB seems problematic but I figure that it's a good bet for 1st year students to get started. Thank you all for your suggestions!
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 6:00 PM Evgeniy Ginzburg <nad....@gmail.com> wrote: > Forgot the JetBrains mentioned here > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 4:55 PM Evgeniy Ginzburg <nad....@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hello Josh. >> I'll try to answer the question that you not really asked. >> >> The problem with lightweight editors (best ones are variants of Vim or >> Emacs) that making them work "good" for Java coding is a very non-trivial >> task. >> Especially if you want any debugging, code navigation and/or snippets. >> (Also if anybody can point me to a good configuration example for >> Java/Scala in Vim or Emacs I'll be eternally grateful.) >> >> C/C++ is easier in this case. >> Still, making ctags(or equivalent) and GDB to work under Vim or Emacs is >> not the 5 minutes task. >> And one will need to integrate some kind of build system make, cmake, >> etc... >> Whoever is going to do this will need to know exactly what he wants, and >> this is not expected from the first year student. >> >> And also I assume that you'd prefer a solution that "Just works (TM)". >> >> Then your choices are limited to full-fledged IDEs, and those are not in >> any way lightweight. >> From my point of view, Netbeans is just a little bit lighter than Eclipse >> on resources, but this is just a matter of personal taste. >> >> Best regards Evgeniy. >> >> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 10:53 AM Josh Roden <joshro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> Happy Purim! >>> We're looking for a Linux editor for first year CS students >>> that is light on resources. >>> Thanks, >>> Josh >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Linux-il mailing list >>> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >>> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >>> >> >> >> -- >> So long, and thanks for all the fish. >> > > > -- > So long, and thanks for all the fish. >
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