Is there a good SDK to use with cygwin?

[Innstanbul]

Are there certain editors or software development kits that can be used in a linux terminal? Or with Cygwin? And are free of charge?

[Moschops]

emacs for editing and gcc (plus assorted utilities) for everything else is a classic choice.

[Innstanbul]

Thanks, I will look into that.

[Innstanbul]

What about xemacs? Would that be better then emacs?

[Moschops]

It used to be. In my opinion it's not anymore.

emacs is not to everyone's taste.

[Innstanbul]

Okay, I will try emacs.

[ascii]

I'm not trying to start an editor war here, but I also recommend you look into the VIM editor. I prefer it over Emacs. It starts and runs faster and more efficiently and all of commands can be done without having to move your hands. I'd recommend you try both of them before you make a decision.

http://www.vim.org/

[Moschops]

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!

[Innstanbul]

I'm going to try VIM now, and see if I like it better.

[Innstanbul]

How can I get make to operate inside my VIM buffer? And not outside of VIM.

Such as this syntax in VIM:

:make --> tried that, and does not work.

I'm trying to compile 'inside' of vim.


I'm using this with cygwin.

EDIT: Maybe there is a way to get :make to work properly.

Here is the error message--> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

I can use make outside of VIM, I know I installed.

I'm going to set up my make file again.

[ascii]

You can execute pretty much any normal cmd command by preceding it with a ! in VIM. For example typing :!dir would give you a listing of your current directory.