Using Unix as an IDE

Naming "not using an IDE" like this is an interesting idea for folks coming from systems like MS Windows. I'm a "Unix as IDE" guy for +10yrs, but noticed for some large projects that an IDE actually can make a big difference. I used KDevelop and Eclipse solely for

1. Code navigation. 2. Showing code/type documentation on mouse over. 3. Having 1+2 combined with a gdb frontend.

Unfortunately, these are "in-editor" features and OS utilities cannot replace them.

Unix targeted programmer productivity from the beginning. The programmer's workbench, PWB Unix, was introduced in 1977. The tools that made up PWB were incorporated into Unix and, later, Linux.