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what Programming Environment : Editor & Debugger

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Stefan Becker

dear Pascal'ers,

I've just searched the net and freepascal.org in the hope of finding some info on what and how to set up a working environment with linux.

So far I've done all my editing and debuging on a DOS machine with Borland 7.0 - and "just" recompiling my applications with freepascal for linux.

I want to go to a pure linux environment - so now the question.....

What editor or program should I use and work my way into? It would be nice to have a debugger also. Is there any "finished" packages that I could use?

The FreePascal website talks about a "fp IDE" and I remember seeing it for DOS. Does this exist for linux?

many thanks,

Stefan Becker

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James Mills
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dear Pascal'ers, I've just searched the net and freepascal.org in the hope of finding some info on what and how to set up a working environment with linux. So far I've done all my editing and debuging on a DOS machine with Borland 7.0 - and "just" recompiling my applications with freepascal for linux. I want to go to a pure linux environment - so now the question..... What editor or program should I use and work my way into? It would be nice to have a debugger also. Is there any "finished" packages that I could use? The FreePascal website talks about a "fp IDE" and I remember seeing it for DOS. Does this exist for linux?

vim is a nice text editor for sources and support pascal syntax highlighting. I think there is an IDE for Linux though, you'll find it on the Free Pascal website.

There's also Lazarus that'll you find as well which you can use. It's similar in many ways to Delphi and can be used for all your development and gui needs (though I have not used it yet).

As far as a debugger goes, simply use gdb.

cheers
James

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Michael Van Canneyt
to Stefan Becker: I've just searched the net and freepascal.org in the hope of finding some info on what…
Stefan Becker wrote 17 lines
dear Pascal'ers, I've just searched the net and freepascal.org in the hope of finding some info on what and how to set up a working environment with linux. So far I've done all my editing and debuging on a DOS machine with Borland 7.0 - and "just" recompiling my applications with freepascal for linux. I want to go to a pure linux environment - so now the question..... What editor or program should I use and work my way into? It would be nice to have a debugger also. Is there any "finished" packages that I could use? The FreePascal website talks about a "fp IDE" and I remember seeing it for DOS. Does this exist for linux?

It does, but no version has been compiled lately.

I suggest you try lazarus:
www.lazarus.freepascal.org

It will do allmost all you need.

Michael.

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Frank W McCormick
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lazarus

That's OK but you need the Lazarus flavour of FPC. Is there no alternative? I'd like something like the DOS Qedit but everyone seems to be writing GUI IDE's or text editors.

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Holger Peters
to Stefan Becker: I've just searched the net and freepascal.org in the hope of finding some info on what…
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dear Pascal'ers, I've just searched the net and freepascal.org in the hope of finding some info on what and how to set up a working environment with linux. So far I've done all my editing and debuging on a DOS machine with Borland 7.0 - and "just" recompiling my applications with freepascal for linux. I want to go to a pure linux environment - so now the question..... What editor or program should I use and work my way into? It would be nice to have a debugger also. Is there any "finished" packages that I could use? The FreePascal website talks about a "fp IDE" and I remember seeing it for DOS. Does this exist for linux? many thanks, Stefan Becker

Hi,

I use vim for editing files, because it is very fast, and you don't need to change between mouse and keyboard.

But I have to warn you, when you only worked with intuitive systems, it is a bit work to get familiar with it.

Gdb is a console-based debugger.

Holger

(If you've got troubles with vim, mail me)

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Unknown author
to Frank W McCormick: On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 16:44:19 +0200 (W. Europe Daylight Time) That's OK but you need the…
Frank W McCormick wrote 10 lines
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 16:44:19 +0200 (W. Europe Daylight Time) Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > lazarus That's OK but you need the Lazarus flavour of FPC. Is there no alternative? I'd like something like the DOS Qedit but everyone seems to be writing GUI IDE's or text editors.

If you like Qedit, try Joe. I always use joe.

And as for the 'Lazarus flavour of FPC', I don't know what that means ? Lazarus will work with any version of FPC, since it uses the compiler externally.

Michael.

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Frank W McCormick
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On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Frank W McCormick wrote: > On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 16:44:19 +0200 (W. Europe Daylight Time) > Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > > lazarus > > > > That's OK but you need the Lazarus flavour of FPC. Is there no > alternative? I'd like something like the DOS Qedit but everyone > seems to be writing GUI IDE's or text editors. If you like Qedit, try Joe. I always use joe. And as for the 'Lazarus flavour of FPC', I don't know what that means ? Lazarus will work with any version of FPC, since it uses the compiler externally.

Oh. Because the compilers are available at the site I assumed they were "special" in some way.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Frank

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Jeff Pohlmeyer

I use NEdit for nearly all my editing.

On the surface, it looks and acts almost like windows notepad.

But under the hood, it has lots of powerful features, most of them specific to programming. Things like syntax highlighting, macro recorder and interpretor, shell commands, text filtering from external programs, regex search and replace, etc, etc, etc...

Check it out at:
http://www.nedit.org

I have also written a program that will make nedit act something like an "IDE" for free pascal:
http://houston.quik.com/jkp/ne4fpc/

No debugger support yet, but i'm working on it...

- Jeff

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Jeff Pohlmeyer
I have also written a program that will make nedit act something like an "IDE" for free pascal: http://houston.quik.com/jkp/ne4fpc/

Just my luck, I have hammered on this this thing for almost a year now, and thought I had gotten all of the "show-stopper" bugs out of it.

Yesterday I found two bugs, one was an endless loop bug, the other was in the parsing of empty string literals '' .

These two bugs are (hopefully) fixed now, and the new version has been uploaded to the same URL as before.

As a side note, I would like to say thank you to Zintel Gerhard, he was very helpful in resolving some other "pre-release" issues.

If anyone else decides to try this program, I would greatly appreciate any feedback (good or bad)

- Jeff

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