Re: Recommendations on Coding programs
On 10/17/2015 10:49 PM, Bob Gustafson wrote: On 10/17/2015 08:08 PM, Mike or Penny Novack wrote: On 10/17/2015 7:06 PM, Matt Graham wrote: G’day all, Now that I finally have myself set up to be able to view, edit and test the gnucash sources, I have come across the limitation of using text editors (using nano at the moment...) to code. Can anyone recommend a good program for doing coding for Gnucash? I’m mainly looking at the C side of things rather than guile, but a program that can do multiple types of code would be useful. Preferably ones that are supported on both windows and linux. Cheers, Matt G Well during several decades writing software for a living, I wrote* a few hundred thousand lines of code without a language sensitive editor. But since these are now readily available, I strongly recommend you use one. In any 'nix operating system this is no problem at all, since the standard library of utilities will give you a choice of them. Under Windows you probably have a choice of at least some of these. Many decades back a friend sent me a copy of xemacs for Windows, so I know that one existed at least that far back << I was using it just to be able to do LISP under Windows >> Michael D Novack * I don't mean I entered that many keystroke by keystroke! Folks who are experienced at the trade usually know where to find "useful chunks" and have decent personal libraries from which chunks perhaps as big as hundreds of lines can be grabbed and used with just a few key changes. ___ You could take a look at the products available from https://www.jetbrains.com/ They are not free - but are modestly priced. For C and C++, you might take a look at CLion https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/?fromMenu I myself am using RubyMine and WebStorm. Have fun Bob G For open source projects, you can apply for a free subscription: https://www.jetbrains.com/buy/opensource/?product=clion Bob G ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Recommendations on Coding programs
G’day all, Now that I finally have myself set up to be able to view, edit and test the gnucash sources, I have come across the limitation of using text editors (using nano at the moment...) to code. Can anyone recommend a good program for doing coding for Gnucash? I’m mainly looking at the C side of things rather than guile, but a program that can do multiple types of code would be useful. Preferably ones that are supported on both windows and linux. Cheers, Matt G ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: Recommendations on Coding programs
> On Oct 17, 2015, at 4:06 PM, Matt Grahamwrote: > > G’day all, > > Now that I finally have myself set up to be able to view, edit and test the > gnucash sources, I have come across the limitation of using text editors > (using nano at the moment...) to code. Can anyone recommend a good program > for doing coding for Gnucash? I’m mainly looking at the C side of things > rather than guile, but a program that can do multiple types of code would be > useful. Preferably ones that are supported on both windows and linux. Matt, Welcome. Among us grizzled old-timers there are two camps, those who prefer emacs and those who prefer vi/vim (I’m in the emacs camp). The less grizzled prefer integrated development environments, or IDEs, of which I think Eclipse is the most popular. The IDEs are perhaps easier to learn than emacs or vi at the expense of being more mouse-oriented. All of those work on Windows, Mac, and X11, and probably Wayland and Unity too. Both emacs and vim provide integration with the compiler and debugger and so are just as much development environments as any IDE, there’s just some assembly required to get all the pieces installed and working. They’re also infinitely customizable, thus providing an infinite time sink… Regards, John Ralls ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: Recommendations on Coding programs
On 10/17/2015 08:08 PM, Mike or Penny Novack wrote: On 10/17/2015 7:06 PM, Matt Graham wrote: G’day all, Now that I finally have myself set up to be able to view, edit and test the gnucash sources, I have come across the limitation of using text editors (using nano at the moment...) to code. Can anyone recommend a good program for doing coding for Gnucash? I’m mainly looking at the C side of things rather than guile, but a program that can do multiple types of code would be useful. Preferably ones that are supported on both windows and linux. Cheers, Matt G Well during several decades writing software for a living, I wrote* a few hundred thousand lines of code without a language sensitive editor. But since these are now readily available, I strongly recommend you use one. In any 'nix operating system this is no problem at all, since the standard library of utilities will give you a choice of them. Under Windows you probably have a choice of at least some of these. Many decades back a friend sent me a copy of xemacs for Windows, so I know that one existed at least that far back << I was using it just to be able to do LISP under Windows >> Michael D Novack * I don't mean I entered that many keystroke by keystroke! Folks who are experienced at the trade usually know where to find "useful chunks" and have decent personal libraries from which chunks perhaps as big as hundreds of lines can be grabbed and used with just a few key changes. ___ You could take a look at the products available from https://www.jetbrains.com/ They are not free - but are modestly priced. For C and C++, you might take a look at CLion https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/?fromMenu I myself am using RubyMine and WebStorm. Have fun Bob G ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: Recommendations on Coding programs
On 10/17/2015 7:06 PM, Matt Graham wrote: G’day all, Now that I finally have myself set up to be able to view, edit and test the gnucash sources, I have come across the limitation of using text editors (using nano at the moment...) to code. Can anyone recommend a good program for doing coding for Gnucash? I’m mainly looking at the C side of things rather than guile, but a program that can do multiple types of code would be useful. Preferably ones that are supported on both windows and linux. Cheers, Matt G Well during several decades writing software for a living, I wrote* a few hundred thousand lines of code without a language sensitive editor. But since these are now readily available, I strongly recommend you use one. In any 'nix operating system this is no problem at all, since the standard library of utilities will give you a choice of them. Under Windows you probably have a choice of at least some of these. Many decades back a friend sent me a copy of xemacs for Windows, so I know that one existed at least that far back << I was using it just to be able to do LISP under Windows >> Michael D Novack * I don't mean I entered that many keystroke by keystroke! Folks who are experienced at the trade usually know where to find "useful chunks" and have decent personal libraries from which chunks perhaps as big as hundreds of lines can be grabbed and used with just a few key changes. ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel