Developing environments used for kernel development

[Geyslan G. Bem]

2015-12-22 22:18 GMT-03:00 Daniel. <danielhilst at gmail.com>:
> Hey Jeff, thanks for the reply, what I realy don't like in IDEs is tying
> building and editing at same tool. I'm a simple guy so I like to keep things
> simple. I never heard of anybody using IDE's for building C code in linux.
>
> I'm considering back to vim since emacs indenting is making me crazy

Could you explain which indenting aspect is annoying you?

>
> Regards
>
> 2015-12-22 17:59 GMT-02:00 Jeff Haran <Jeff.Haran at citrix.com>:
>> Off list.
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>> I use gvim, make, all the old style tools for kernel development and have
>> been doing so for about 15 years now, but I am an old fart. Your boss
>> needs
>> to understand that a lot of these IDEs, though useful for user space
>> development, don’t help much in kernel space. When the kernel goes bad,
>> the
>> IDE goes with it.
>>
>>
>>
>> If he is uneducatable on this, you might want to check out this package
>> called kdevelop. You can keep it running in one desktop to make him happy
>> and then do the real work using the tried and true command line tools in
>> another desktop.
>>
>>
>>
>> Good luck,
>>
>>
>>
>> Jeff Haran
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>> From: kernelnewbies-bounces at kernelnewbies.org
>> [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounces at kernelnewbies.org] On Behalf Of Daniel.
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 11:28 AM
>> To: kernelnewbies
>> Subject: Developing environments used for kernel development
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>> My boss came to my desk today raiging that I should use more productive
>> tools for developing. Well I don't want to begin an editor war but, yes, I
>> use emacs. I used to use vim before but the integration of emacs and gdb
>> has
>> caught my attention.
>>
>> To be clear, as "more productive tools" he understands graphical eye candy
>> tools. My argument to use an "simple editor plus makefiles" was, it just
>> works and thats it. So before to downloading eclipse just to make my
>> boss's
>> eyes happy I've decided to make a little research.
>>
>> What you guys are using today to develope kenrel code?
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>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> - dhs
>>
>>
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