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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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gp2c-dbg

GP2C-DBG(1)							       PARI							       GP2C-DBG(1)

NAME

       GP2C-DBG - The GP to C debugger driver

DESCRIPTION

       gp2c-dbg [gp2c options] [file.gp]

       Compile	file.gp  with  gp2c  and  launch a debugger session of gp where the functions of file.gp are loaded.  [gp2c options] are passed to
       gp2c.

       gp2c-dbg file.c

       Compile file.c and launch a debugger session of gp where  the  functions  of  file.c  are  loaded.  The	file  file.c  must  have  suitable
       GP;install() lines.

USAGE

       Since there is no debugger for the GP language, gp2c-dbg allows to debug GP scripts with the C debugger.  To catch PARI errors, you can set
       a break point on the function "pari_err".  Note that your functions will not be loaded until gp read the .run file.

FILES

       file.gp.c The C output of gp2c.

       file.gp.so
	      The GP loadable module.

       file.gp.run
	      The  commands to load the module. Once a module is compiled, you can load it inside a gp session by running this script.

ENVIRONMENT

       GP2C   Path to the gp2c compiler, default: /usr/bin/gp2c

       GP_DBG Path to the gp calculator, default: /usr/bin/gp

       GP2C_DBG
	      Command to start the debugger, default: "gdb --args"

COPYING

       Copyright 2000-2006 The PARI Group

       GP2C is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute  copies  of  it  under
       certain conditions.  There is absolutely no warranty for GP2C.

SEE ALSO

       The GP2C manual, gp2c-run(1), gp2c(1), gp(1), gdb(1)

GP to C compiler driver 					   November 2001						       GP2C-DBG(1)
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