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From: p DOT steiner AT t-online DOT de (Peter Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: RHIDE: recall last help
Date: 27 Jul 1997 20:45:18 GMT
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On 27 Jul 1997 05:36:13 GMT, Paul Derbyshire <ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA> wrote:
>
>Peter Steiner (p DOT steiner AT t-online DOT de) writes:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Here is a little suggestion to improve RHIDE. In Borland-C the last help can
>> be recalled by pressing Alt-F1. In RHIDE this feature is limited, because
>> after closing the help the history is discarded.  It would be nice if this
>> could be improved in one of the next releases. Especially because this
>> feature is almost implemented. When switching the help to the background
>> instead of closing it recall is still possible but it´s not that handy.
>
>Also, help has ^U to go up a node, but this isn't always the same as
>previously-visited node. I.e., you can go sideways from printf to scanf,
>but ^U from scanf goes to alphabetical index, so it'd be nice to have a
>key to return to printf in that case. It ought to remember perhaps twenty
>o thirty previous locations, and keep the memory after a close and reopen.
>(COnsidering these history entries need be only pointers, and DJGPP allows
>huge gobs of memory to be allocated, and everyone has 8 megs nowadays, or
>more, there can't be a memory problem even remembering the last 8000 nodes!)

RHIDE supports stepping to the previously visited node (Alt-F1) and the
history may be many nodes in size. The only problem is that the history is
discarded when the help is closed.

Cu,

Peter Steiner
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