Quote Originally Posted by fatjuicymole View Post
Qt Creator will show you the first error and even let you move through them and jump to the (sometimes approximate) offending line of code.
It will jump with the external editor? If not then it's just a matter of redirecting make's output to something else than the command line console - i.e. a file or a pipe. Some advanced editors would even allow running make from within themselves and would show the output in some nice window.