Hi,

I'd like to give C programming from shell a try. I thought about
vim+gcc, so i added these lines to ~/.vimrc:

syntax on
set et
set sw=4
set smarttab
set nocp incsearch
set cinoptions=:0,p0,t0
set cinwords=if,else,while,do,for,switch,case
set formatoptions=tcqr
set cindent

but my question is: isn't there a way to integrate vim and gdb (watches,
breakpoints etc on the shell)? If I got it right, both GdbVim and Clewn
do what I'm looking for, but just on the GUI version of vim. How do you
program from shell? Suggestions?

thanks

Outspan <borghiborghi******.com> wrote:
> Hi,

> I'd like to give C programming from shell a try. I thought about
> vim+gcc, so i added these lines to ~/.vimrc:

> syntax on
> set et
> set sw=4
> set smarttab
> set nocp incsearch
> set cinoptions=:0,p0,t0
> set cinwords=if,else,while,do,for,switch,case
> set formatoptions=tcqr
> set cindent

> but my question is: isn't there a way to integrate vim and gdb (watches,
> breakpoints etc on the shell)? If I got it right, both GdbVim and Clewn
> do what I'm looking for, but just on the GUI version of vim. How do you
> program from shell? Suggestions?

> thanks

Programming from the shell isn't hard if you know how to use the
command line. Instead of trying to do what you said from inside vim,
just use vim to make changes to the source file.

Then use cc (or gcc) from the command line to compile. Compile with -g
to enable debugging.

Then run gdb from the command line to debug.

I wrote instructions on how to do do this. You can find them at

http://josephrosevear.com/link.html

Look for the Unixes section and click on the last link called

My notes on use of gdb

I hope this helps.

-Joe

In <46fe7878$0$36451$4fafbaef@reader5.news.tin.it>,
Outspan <borghiborghi******.com> mentions:
>Hi,
>
>I'd like to give C programming from shell a try. I thought about
>vim+gcc, so i added these lines to ~/.vimrc:
>
>syntax on
>set et
>set sw=4
>set smarttab
>set nocp incsearch
>set cinoptions=:0,p0,t0
>set cinwords=if,else,while,do,for,switch,case
>set formatoptions=tcqr
>set cindent
>
>but my question is: isn't there a way to integrate vim and gdb (watches,
>breakpoints etc on the shell)? If I got it right, both GdbVim and Clewn
>do what I'm looking for, but just on the GUI version of vim. How do you
>program from shell? Suggestions?

As far as I know, (and I could very well be wrong, I don't do much in C)
vim really isn't very good at interfacing with gdb, HOWEVER..

One utility that you might be interested in is called 'cgdb'

http://cgdb.sourceforge.net/

It's a cursed debugger, works pretty good, doesn't need X11

Jamie
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