I have two concerns about the chide IDE

[Eclair_de_XII]

TL;DR Summary

I installed chide, and have two problems:

1. The text I input into the editor appears as garbled-up boxes of numbers.
2. Every time I close a session, a gmon.out file is created. I don't want my file-system littered with these files.

Incidentally, I am also open to alternatives to C interpreters and editors, preferably, those that are simple and lightweight.

The main concern I have right now is that whenever I open something up in chide, the letters look like boxes with numbers; the line numbers are like this, as well. I'm not sure what is going on, here. The second concern I have is that a file called `gmon.out' is created after exiting every chide session I open. I think this is undesirable, and would like to know how to stop this behavior. I understand that it is an important file, but at the same time, I don't approve of having files like this being created in my current working directory every time I open and close chide.

 

[pbuk]

1. The text I input into the editor appears as garbled-up boxes of numbers.
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The main concern I have right now is that whenever I open something up in chide, the letters look like boxes with numbers; the line numbers are like this, as well. I'm not sure what is going on, here.

Looks like a problem with character sets, although I'm surprised its affecting every character including line numbers. Is your system language set to something with non-Roman numerals e.g. Arabic?

Incidentally, I am also open to alternatives to C interpreters and editors, preferably, those that are simple and lightweight.

I have never come across chide before: it doesn't look well maintained and I cannot think of a good reason to use it.

For serious use I recommend Visual Studio Code. For basic use just taking the first steps then you could look at something online like repl.it or programiz.

 

[Eclair_de_XII]

Is your system language set to something with non-Roman numerals e.g. Arabic?

It's set to American English. I'm also running Linux Mint, but I'm unsure if it is relevant to the problem.

For basic use just taking the first steps then you could look at something online like repl.it or programiz.

Thanks for the recommendations. But I should have specified that I was looking for offline editors.

 

[Eclair_de_XII]

In the end, I decided to just go with vim with the .vimrc settings:

set nocp
set expandtab
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=0
map <F5> :!myfile=%; if [ "${myfile: -4}" == ".tex" ]; then etex $myfile && xreader ${myfile/.tex/.dvi}; elif [ "${myfile: -3}" == ".py" ]; then python3 $myfile; elif [ "${myfile: -2}" == ".c" ]; then gcc -o "${myfile:: -2}" $myfile && ./"${myfile:: -2}"; fi;