Ok, my turn. You could try eclipse, but I highly reccommend Vim. At fisrt Vim seems overly complicated and kind of stupid, but once you learn how to use it, it is better than any IDE ever will be (unless they are vim).

Vim supports all the features of most modern IDE's, you can intergrate it with other tools to provide "class browsing", code indentation (built-in), syntax highlighting, intergration with make and other such tools... Vim is, well... awesome.

Now on to other matters. Not sure why you chose slackware, but it sounds like you would be more at home with something like Ubuntu... let the distro wars commence. Spread disorder and confusions! Ok really though, Ubuntu is great. I would not be caught dead or alive using something not debian based.

Another vote here for SlickEdit.

I use slackware-current and vim.

I use Scite for coding. I have all files that compile together in the same directory and just include one local scite config file that gives the specific command to compile.

I'm using C#, though, so it's easy for me to understand and use the command line compiler directly.

Eclipse is bliss

Quote: Original post by hpox
Eclipse is bliss

Only if you find bliss in bloat. (sounds like piss in boat - ahahaahah. okay).

Ya. I generally find eclipse really slow on all platforms. Besides, this guy's looking for responsiveness and speed.'

Use a text editor with syntax highlighting and indentation. Perhaps vim is good, but I heard there's a steep learning curve.

A decent IDE is the only thing keeping me from completely switching to Linux.

-ßrice

Personally, I use Vim + ctags.

Vim has all the features I need, code folding, syntax highlighting, and indentation for C/C++ and C# (and others), and ctags makes it easy to jump around from function to function in vim.

Other than that I'd go with Eclipse, which feels quite snappy on my machine (mid-range).

KDevelop and Anjuta both felt wrong to me, perhaps because I've just gotten so used to the CLI.

The Art of Unix Programming has an excellent chapter on development tools.