On Jan 19, 2017, at 9:21 PM, Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jan 2017, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I'd also consider Turbo C for MS-DOS. Or, if you want to go a different period direction, use cc on your Linux box and force yourself to use a command line editor (vi or Emacs).
What's a good graphical C for Linux? I'd rather avoid the command line. I know how to use it modestly enough, but I don't enjoy it.
A lot of us old-school C programmers prefer the command line. My personal preference (on *nix) is:
1. Terminal window open for editing with 'vim'.
2. Another terminal window for running 'make'.
3. A third terminal for reading 'man' pages. :-)
Personally, my favorite is juggling jobs with ^Z and 'fg %x', since it means one less thing to have to click on (also, I got my start in command-line programming on single-window terminals, so jobs juggling was the only option). If possible, I like to avoid mouse use entirely; it entails a high context-switch overhead.
If I'm writing a web-based application, a web browser is open on a second monitor.
Well, yeah, no way around that. - Dave