(OT) Christophe-Marie Duquesne<chm.duquesne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I wonder if there are actually a lot of programmers who used the > autotools in IDEs and did not came back to classic text editors. We have a few working with Microsoft Visual Studio and have automake rules for GNU Make (which IMHO is a kind of functional programming language with many nice features) to generate VC98 ".dsw" files (using check_PROGRAMs, $(filter), $patsubst etc). Similar as with tags in $EDITOR you can navigate (and browse weak structured software :-)) and debug ("trial and error" :-)). I like your point "coming back to classic text editors". Some tell it would be /THE/ evolution from $EDITOR to IDEs like Eclipse, quickly programming Java. But others then tell /THE/ evolution continues to rapidly programming Rails. Next evolution, I mean /THE/ evolution, goes to automated unit tests and strong software structure with simple APIs. Well, and after all those evolutions in the end they find themself working with $EDITOR because developing in e.g. Rails works just best with it :-) oki, Steffen _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf