Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/08/11/10:48:05
On 8 Aug 1999, Orvbongat wrote:
> Which is one is a better IDE...Rhide or EMACS?
These questions risk sparking religious wars ;-). Hopefully, this
forum knows better...
The answer is: it depends. Each one has its advantages and
disadvantages; it's up to you to decide. Most of the features you'd
expect, like automatic source indentation and syntax-driven
highlighting, compilation from within the editor, support for several
programming languages, etc.--are found in both of them.
RHIDE is somewhat easier to use for a beginner (if you are used to
Borland's IDE or to Wordstar-like keybindings, then RHIDE will be
*much* easier for you to use). It includes an integrated debugger,
which is based on the GDB debugging engine. The RHIDE distribution is
also significantly smaller.
Emacs has much more features, including some that have nothing to do
with editing per se (for example, it has a built-in mailer and news
groups reader, and even includes several games, like Snake and
Tetris). In fact, features are added at such a high rate that it is
almost impossible to be familiar with all of them. The latest version
20.4 supports editing non-English languages and mixing several
languages in a single file (yes, even on DOS). Emacs is also available
on many more platforms than RHIDE (so you'll never again will need to
learn another editor). But there is no integrated debugger, unless
you use the NTEmacs port which can run GDB in a way that allows
debugging similar to RHIDE. Also, the distribution is very large, and
the editor takes some time to get used to.
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