I don't have too much of a problem with editors, my true problem is a debugger. The gdb is sooooo bad, that the info I get from it is just useless. So I end up doing logging and stuff.
Eclipse contains a good graphical debugger based on gdb. I'm really sure it is what you want! Try it out on Windows! (There are always some issues on Windows if e.g. Cygwin is used because a path<-->drive letter mapping needs to be specified. Don't know about mingw. It works out of the box on Linux.)
Might give it a try... I guess it would be useless to try it on a vmware image, right?
PS: There are also many other IDE with good debuggers: KDE's kdevelop,
Last time i used it, it was bad. Hope it improved. Best, John -- http://John.Torjo.com -- C++ expert http://blog.torjo.com ... call me only if you want things done right