Re: Preferred applications: IDE, text-editor, music player.
Nuno,
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
The thing is i have a few requirements: i want applications that are not
desktop-dependant (i.e. Gnome or KDE) and do not rely upon Java. This
rules out a lot of text editors. For console, i use nano, for GUI i'm
using leafpad, any other suggestions?
I've gone to the extreme with desktop-independence. I use DWM as my
window manager and have it tweaked such that unless I happen to have a
browser or image/movie viewer open it looks just like the Linux console.
The only window decorations is a one pixel wide border to show which
window has focus, which I can toggle off/on. DWM can be completely
controlled via the keyboard. I use the plain Jane console version of vim
even when using it under X in a urxvt window.
The IDE part is a bit more tricky.
They're not too tricky if one gets the cables and jumper settings right.
I've had good luck with both Maxtor and Western Digital IDE drives. :-)
Excluding Java kicks out NetBeans and Eclipse. The basic fuctionality i
search in an IDE is syntax-highlight, code-completion,
project-management and preferably cross-platform and i18n support.
Eclipse's C++ relied on make which may be useful for linux but not as
much for windows. Any IDE supporting a GUI would be welcome; CodeDragon
is at its early stage and this poses the question: which toolkit to use?
Oh, that IDE. :-)
I've never figured out the appeal of IDEs. Maybe it's because I cut my
programming teeth learning Pascal on a VAX 11/750, running VMS, with VT-52
clone terminals. VMS's LSE, Language Sensitive Editor, has some nice
built-in compile capabilities, but I don't think it was available on the
11/750 I used back then. I did try it on my VAXStation at home a while
back.
For program development I use an editor, vim, to edit, a compiler, gcc,
fpc, clip, etc., to compile(usually via a Makefile), and a revision
control manager, git, for revision control.
I've bene using esperanza as a client for xmms2d but it doesn't support
random playing. In fact there doesn't seem to be than many clients out
there, is xmms2d that fresh?
When at the command line(which includes using urxvt under X windows) I use
mpg123 ogg123, mplayer, etc., to play music. If I'm in the living room I
play music from my PC on my TiVo thanks to pyTivo.
Kevin
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