[OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 00:34:07 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:
> 
> When I custom-install stuff, I usually put it in /usr/local/*, or even
> give it a dedicated home in /home (though usually just
> /usr/src/$pkgname/install or some such), away from the package manager
> managed stuff.  It tends to work far better that way.  Fighting with
> the package manager never ends well, as does installing external
> files into directories managed by the package manager.

My understanding (purely from the link below) was that /usr/local/* was
*specifically* for non-package-managered stuff, whereas /usr/* was
*specifically* for package-managered things:

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/8656/usr-bin-vs-usr-local-bin-on-linux

> 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.


> > Hence my first comment: I prefer to just grab the Windows version
> > and run it in wine. That usually just works.
> 
> I dunno, wine doesn't seem to like my GUI configuration (or lack
> thereof :-P). It just falters in its steps and gasps every now and
> then, that I don't trust that whatever program it's running is
> actually doing what it should be doing. I still rather build from
> source.
> 

I find GUI apps to be butt-ugly under wine ;) But often usable
otherwise (not that I've used it much so far).