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Top Forums Programming Open Source What editor does everyone use? Post 302088992 by james hanley on Friday 15th of September 2006 01:05:53 PM
Old 09-15-2006
DDD - data display debugger, looks interesting. I hadn't heard of it before..


I had heard of "the omniscient debugger" for java.. but that's not really relevant.

I found that the Eclipse IDE wasn't so annoying.. plus of course the good debugger it has in it. Though I can see why you'd prefer a text editor, it is slimmer. And still ess annoyign, even nice!

But, it's not just the debugger..
Also, IDEs have a feature, i'm not sure what it is called. But a text editor probably wouldn't do this. It has a suggestion style autocomplete feature.. It knows all your methods(like functions/procedures) and variable names. And as you type a name, the drop down menu shows all the possibilities. This is very useful particularly in a language like java where you have these long identifiers, like
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException, FileNotFoundException , IllegalARgumentException. There are many of these things.. This feature isn't about creating an abbreviation for them. But suggesting what method you are calling.
Also, when you have an object, and you want to call some method, then as soon as you type object1. it'll list all the methods(functions/procedures) of object 1, with their parameters and types.
And this is also useful because variables are case sensitive. And can be quite long.

And also, you can browse around your code quite quickly within a file, because it bookmarks all the methods/functions, so you can just click the name of the function listed in one window, and in the other window it jumps to that portion of code.
 

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KDBG(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   KDBG(1)

NAME

       kdbg - a graphical debugger interface

SYNOPSIS

       kdbg [ generic-options ] [ -t file ] [ -r device ] [ -l language ] [ -p pid ] [ program ] [ core ]

DESCRIPTION

       KDbg  is a graphical user interface to gdb, the GNU debugger.  It provides an intuitive interface for setting breakpoints, inspecting vari-
       ables, stepping through code and much more.  KDbg requires KDE but you can of course debug any program.

       KDbg can also debug XSLT (XML stylesheet translation) scripts by interfacing with xsldbg.  Debian users must install the kxsldbg package to
       make use of this feature.

       You can pass KDbg the path of the executable to debug (program) or a core dump to debug (core).

       Features of KDbg include:

	      Inspection of variable values in a tree structure.

	      Direct  member: For certain compound data types the most important member values are displayed next to the variable name, so that it
	      is not necessary to expand the subtree of that variable in order to see the member value.  KDbg can also display Qt's  QString  val-
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	      Debugger at your finger tips: The basic debugger functions (step, next, run, finish, until, set/clear/enable/disable breakpoint) are
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	      View source code, search text, set program arguments and environment variables, display arbitrary expressions.

	      Debugging of core dumps, attaching to running processes is possible.

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OPTIONS

       Below are the kdbg-specific options.  For a full summary of options, run kdbg --help.

       -t file
	      Write a transcript of the conversation with the debugger to the given file.

       -r device
	      Use remote debugging via the given device.

       -l language
	      Specify the language of the program/script to debug.  This must be either C (for a C/C++ program) or XSL (for an XSLT  script).	If
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SEE ALSO

       gdb(1), xsldbg(1).

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AUTHOR

       KDbg was written by Johannes Sixt <Johannes.Sixt@telecom.at>.
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								  March 25, 2005							   KDBG(1)
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