On Tue, 17 May 2005, Chen Xiao Fan wrote:

> I do not like Emacs at all. From the very beginning I never
> installed EMACS and TETEX. Vi is acceptable. :(

Let's not start that war again. emacs is to vi what a country is to a 
big city. emacs is known as the operating system with underpowered boot 
loaders ;-) On the other hand, vim is a powerful vi compatible editor 
that has a standard editor gui and is easy to use (and also functions as 
an ide).

> I do know I need to learn Make in order to work in Linux.

'Learning make' is not necessary. (gnu) Make has so many sane defults 
built in that it's really easy to use. Tiny example: given foo.c bar.c 
baz.c a.h b.h as 5 c files in a directory, and a makefile that contains 
only the three lines:

OBJS = foo.o bar.o baz.o
HDRS = a.h b.h
all: app

app: $(OBJS) $(HDRS)

typing make at a command line in that directory will build the 
application (recompiling only the parts that changed). Adding CC = sdcc 
in the makefile will compile with sdcc for pic or whatever you need. 
Adding CFLAGS = ... sets compiler flags etc. Make is *really* easy to 
use. Also 'ide' integration in vi is very powerful. Assuming you use vi 
in the directory above, while editing say foo.c, in command mode, type 
:make and the make command above will run *and* vim will read back any 
errors and jump in the source directly to the line with the first error. 
Next error is :cn previous is :cp, current is :cc . :help inside text 
mode vim is your friend, or click on help in the gui. You can invoke vim 
as vim for text mode and gvim as gui.

I use vi almost exclusively for C and asm file editing. It has syntax 
highlighting built in and very powerful macro and regular expression 
processing, including function-level source code browsing (see ctags and 
^]/^T).

> For Linux newbie like me, GUIs like GNOME/KDE are easier to use.
> As for Wine/DOSEMU, how to run MPLAB/MCC18 working under Wine?

MPLAB 16 bits runs under wine. Newer MPLABs are not so sure to run.

good luck,
Peter
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