C++ IDE Recommendation

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 03:27:19PM -0400, Marc Lanctot 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.

gvim supports ctags which does the indexing.

I suspect vim might even do the search and replace through multiple files,
although I have never tried and usually use perl to do that.

Can't think of anything I would rather use for development than vim.

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Len Sorensen
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