With gud.el, when GDB ran under Emacs, it used the -fullname option, which made it print a tag, called an annotation, that supplied the current filename, line number and address each time execution ...

Emacs is also a front end for GDB. To enter GDB mode, do M-X gdb. Emacs comes up with a proposed command line, “gdb”. We add the name of the executable file to debug, hello, and press Return. This ...

Even emacs — which might be considered the original IDE — can run gdb and gives you a sort-of GUI experience. No Front End Required There was a time when Insight was popular.

There are compilers like GCC and Clang, debuggers like GDB, and editors like Vim and GNU Emacs. All of these are free, unlike other systems where you have to fork over money to be able to program.

Emacs is, rather famously, “the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor” — that would be a text editor to you and I. But given Emacs’ […] Skip to main content ...