Emacs is not only an editor, but a "computing environment" that can be readily customized and extended using the Emacs Lisp (elisp) language. In fact, much of E

Emacs is not only an editor, but a "computing environment" that can be readily customized and extended using the Emacs Lisp (elisp) language. In fact, much of Emacs itself is built with elisp. Some developers find that kind of flexibility in their tooling to be highly compelling, others not so much. I'm not a C++ programmer, but I turned up the following guide with a Google search, which might you might find interesting: C/C++ Development Environment for Emacs http://tuhdo.github.io/c-ide.html http://tuhdo.github.io/c-ide.html