[OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

[Matt Soucy]

On 09/19/2013 05:52 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 06:32:07AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 00:34:07 -0700
>> "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:
> [...]
>>> If I have to install libraries not in the apt repository (or
>>> multiple conflicting versions of the same library), I tend to put it
>>> either under an entirely different PREFIX, preferably under a
>>> dedicated subtree for the app I'm trying to build
>>
>> I had no idea you could do that! That's fantastic: despite my
>> migration towards Linux, I had been worrying about the day I'd
>> inevitable have to deal with multiple versions of the same thing.
> [...]
> 
> Here's something I discovered just today:
> 
> 	% apt-cache show stow
> 	Package: stow
> 	Version: 2.2.0-2
> 	Installed-Size: 672
> 	Maintainer: Chuan-kai Lin <cklin at debian.org>
> 	Architecture: all
> 	Depends: perl, dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info
> 	Suggests: doc-base
> 	Description-en: Organizer for /usr/local software packages
> 	 GNU Stow is a software installation manager for /usr/local.  Using
> 	 symbolic links, GNU Stow helps you keep the installations separate
> 	 (/usr/local/stow/emacs vs. /usr/local/stow/perl, for example) while
> 	 maintaining the illusion that they are all under /usr/local.
> 	Description-md5: 952b8725dcbc2ad8368dbc929406052e
> 	Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/
> 	Tag: implemented-in::perl, interface::commandline, role::program,
> 	 scope::utility, suite::gnu, use::organizing
> 	Section: admin
> 	Priority: optional
> 	Filename: pool/main/s/stow/stow_2.2.0-2_all.deb
> 	Size: 311752
> 	MD5sum: aaf097fd83270ed737484496013711ff
> 	SHA1: 45aa26c7240fc89e4e16e9eaa0d04b7670002a7f
> 	SHA256: d482cef9da0b755de57d138ed752599230341237ecb7f1e5559533dbd15ab619
> 
> Pretty cool stuff, so you get to isolate custom-installed software from
> each other, and still have them work together!
> 
> 
> T
> 
Really nice is when you combine stow with dotfile management - that way
you can isolate just your dotfiles in a git repository (or similar) and
stow the parts you want for each box.
-Matt Soucy

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