Fortran development environments for Linux

[gregfi04]

Historically, the only development tool that I have opted to use has been vim. Vim works well, but I've been reading more and more folks make convincing arguments, usually while discussing development in more common languages like C/C++/Java, for the use of integrated development environments (IDEs).

What's out there in the way of IDEs that support Fortran in Linux? I'm aware of Eclipse/Photran and Kdevelop, but don't have any real experience with them. Are they worth the hassle of installation? (Photran, in partcular, seems non-trivial to install, and requires particular versions of Eclipse, which makes me a little wary.)

Any opinions or information would be appreciated

Thanks,
Greg

[anishtain4]

1. Yep that is installed and I can see the toolchain while I'm making a new project.
2. The variables are set in the .bashrc file, maybe that is this, I'll check it later, now I'm in middle of final exams and all I'm trying to do is to finish this MPI course successfully.
Thanks anyway, I return to this later cuz I really need to learn linux stuff