The Eclipse CDT (C/C++ Development Tool) is well suited to IOC development, and easily customized for editing .db/.template/.substitutions files. Even if you never touch the C code, you can do most of your IOC development with this tool. It includes more generally useful features like search and replace in a directory tree for file names or contents (Ctrl-H), regex search/replace, CVS access, make, gdb with local and remote targets, and launching external tools like edm and vdct. Feel free to try the installation at /afs/slac/u/re/gwbrown/afsbin/eclipse/eclipse. This is not maintained as a site installation. It's easy to download and install your own configuration, where you can try out plugins etc. and untar a clean uninstall if it causes problems. Make sure you've requested a big afs quota.
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Download CDT from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads (one of many flavors of eclipse from eclipse.org)
Unzip/ tar -xvf filename in the directory you want to run it from, e.g. ~/bin/
"cd eclipse" (to get to the newly created installation) and run "./eclipse".
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If you're mostly using this workspace for EPICS work, you can change global default settings by going to Window -> Preferences -> C/C++ -> New C/C++ Project Wizard -> Makefile Project. On the Behaviour tab, delete "all" after "Build (Incremental build)", and change "clean" to "distclean".
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Eclipse has lots of project wizards and other ways of creating a new project. Here are the ones that are most often useful in IOC development:
A directory where you can run "make" can be brought into Eclipse as a project. You can create a subdirectory of the workspace directory, and run makeBaseApp.pl there, use eco, use something you already have outside the workspace directory, copy or check out a directory... The important thing is the you start with a directory where you can run "make" (e.g. top of IOC or module).
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