Using Emacs as an IDE

Question

Currently my workflow with Emacs when I am coding in C or C++ involves three windows. The largest on the right contains the file I am working with. The left is split into

Answer 1

In the Unix or X windows style, I don't know that there is an integrated IDE that works for everything.

For interacting with debuggers, just one component of an IDE, consider realgud. The other thing it has that I find useful are parsers for location messages, so that if you have a call stack trace and want to edit at a particular place in the callstack, this front-end interface will can do that.

By far this program could use improvement. But then it could also use people working on it to improve it.

Disclaimer: I work on realgud