It's one of those programs that I feel I really ought to learn to use (somewhat like emacs) but whenever I try I get that sinking feeling after a while and give

It's one of those programs that I feel I really ought to learn to use (somewhat like emacs) but whenever I try I get that sinking feeling after a while and give up. At least for gdb, there are some great graphical front-ends like kdbg and (the slightly odd but definitely functional) ddd.