C++ IDE Recommendation

[Ian Petersen]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Marc Lanctot <lanctot-yfeSBMgouQgsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I'm looking for an IDE that works in Linux that has good syntax
> highlighting.
>
> Also I'm looking for two (third is not as important) specific features I've
> not found together yet:
>
> 1. Tabs for multiple files
>
> 2. Code indexing (highlight a function or class name and jump to its
> implementation)
>
> 3. Refactoring (change all instances of variable or function name in all
> source files)
>
> Eclipse (with the add-on for C++) does some but the indexing is not very
> well-implemented, last I tried it hardly worked. Also, Eclipse is really
> slow, so I was hoping to find a native client. KDevelop is missing the
> indexing, maybe also the refactoring.
>
> I use gvim right now but it obviously doesn't have the refactoring and
> indexing since it's not an IDE.. but if vim plugins existed for these then
> that would be great.

I've only ever used Eclipse for Java development and I find it does
all three of those things spectacularly well.  It's too bad the C++
plug-in doesn't match the Java one.  Anyway, Eclipse has some
competitors that may or may not support C++ development.  You might
want to try NetBeans, an open source tool from Sun that works
similarly to Eclipse and so might have a C++ environment available.
The other big tool I've heard of is IntelliJ, but I don't know if it
does anything besides Java.

Ian
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