I usually build the application in windows and test /port the application in UNIX using VI
But what is I need to build the application from scratch in unix/linux in shell what option do I have to
Visually debug (break point and such .. ) or syntax helpers? ( c/c++)
My personal experience has been that the graphical shells to gdb just aren't very good - they are prone to crashing, difficult to use (especially the initial setup for a project, and just don't give me enough advantage over good ol' standard gdb to bother. I usually pair that up with a cscope style tool running in another terminal so that I can browse the source code to see what's going on, find function names to set breakpoints on etc. It works pretty well.
