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I was wondering, and please forgive my ignorance, how do you debug with vi(m) or emacs? They are just text editors, right? Or am I missing something here...

• tsally 17y ago
  M-x gdb Screenshot: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/images/gdb.png http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/images/gdb.png If you want to debug a Lisp, you can't do better than Slime. Not sure what the state of the art is on Clojure debuggers.
  • mahmud 17y ago
    M-x slime For a development paltform that's neither brittle nor toy.
  • pan69 17y ago
    Ahh. I see. Does that work in text mode as well?
• dkersten 17y ago
  Vim and emacs are just text editors in the same sense that visual studio, eclipse, netbeans and so forth are just text editors. Offhand, the only feature I can think of that eclipse has that vim doesn't is the ability to display images and graphs - all the normal editing features (auto completion, code folding, syntax highlighting, integrated debugger, file browser, plugin system, remote editing, integrated repl, multiple editor buffers, compile&run function, etc etc) can be enabled pretty easily. Also, you can run vim and emacs over ssh - cant do that with eclipse or visual studio :) Really, vim and emacs are full blown IDEs with all the features you'd expect from a modern IDE - except it doesn't use a fancy GUI.