Is it possible to program through the terminal or console rather than using a text editor..If so....how can I do this? Ohhhh I am using Mandrake 8....Thanx

You mean at the console? How 'bout 'vi' or 'emacs' or 'joe' or 'elvis'...?

I guess if you wanted it to be really difficult you could just use

Yeah....thats what i want through the console....So how I get int Emacs or vi??

It's a bit of a learning curve, but it's also an addiction.
I believe emacs has better formatting tools for programmers, but I'm sure someone here can offer a better suggestion or elaborate on the above.

So we can do C++ programming in emacs? It will take some gettin' use...got any tips?

Hey....I need some help with this emacs stuff......I do the compile and I get make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.
I am doing the hello.cxx program..do I have to specify the directory. I thought it would do the default dir.

It's been a long time since I used emace, but I'm guessing that the compile option in emacs is just calling make in a shell. make needs a file called Makefile in order to compile your program. You have two options. One, create a makefile with the rules to build your hello.cpp file. Two, (recommended) in a second window type g++ -o hello hello.cpp.

It's not really worth writing a Makefile for something as small as hello.cpp, but if you do intend to rebuild a file over and over for testing it may be beneficial. For my small test programs I have kind of a "general purpose" makefile that I can add most any simple program to.

Writing Makefiles can drive you crazy if you do not follow the make rules exactly. (watch your tabs instead of spaces).

Thanks for the info...crabboy, Would that second window to open be in the emacs console or a terminal?

Alright......finally progress!!!! I got it to compile to an executable file thanks to crabboy...Now how do i run the executable?<-----I promise this the last question on this...

Change the permissions on the hello to allow execution. Try: chmod 755 hello. This will turn on execution for every user that may try to execute it. Then type ./hello and the program should execute.

Note: if you want to execute something without adding execute permissions you can always do it like this: . ./hello

Good Luck

Gary

actually, this is a common misconception. i thought this until jharris pointed it out to me a few days ago. the execute permissions HAVE to be set, otherwise you get a "permission denied" error. for demo, try this out on a text file

This was a text file and it was executed by the shell.

ok great that's two straight i've gotten wrong here.

in my defense, i didn't notice that there were two .'s i always used to execute stuff with just the ./ - which i thought would treat any file as executable, until jharris corrected me on that. well... learn something new, i guess.

next time i'm just gonna step out of the way of anyone who has more posts than me

isajera: Actually I kind of got sucked into that one, too. The ". ./" is a new one to me. Should I just forfeit a couple hundred 'posts' now?

I gotta go play with some dots and slashes...