Makefiles, and IDEs in general.

For quite a while, my only experience with C and C++ was through the Bloodshead dev C++ IDE. It's a nice little program, but it's not going to be updated any time soon, so I went looking for a new IDE.

Now, most IDEs these days need you to download and install the compiler separately. Why, I don't know. Dev C++ never had to do this, and it still worked fine. Even after faffing around with that, these compilers go on about needing some kind of 'makefile' when trying to compile a windows program, which leaves me clueless, as Dev C++ happily compiled anything I threw at it while quite ignorant of the things. I've no idea what I'm supposed to do to make this 'makefile' appear so some instruction as to what they are would be helpful. I'm trying to compile with the NetBeans and Eclipse IDE, if such information is necessary.

Also, another thing I've noticed about IDEs lately is they you can't make single files. Dev C++ quite happily let me make a quick .c file and compile it to test a piece of code, but in every other IDE you need to make a great huge project and put the file in that. Nothing major, just a little annoyance for me.

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TextMate is just Notepad with syntax highlighting. It's the worst text editor I've ever criticized based solely on what you see of it in screenshots, which is the most accurate way to assess a text editor's feature set.