Date: Thu, 6 Jun 96 13:59:04 MDT
Message-Id: <9606061959.AA06344@rgfn.epcc.Edu>
From: ad327 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT Edu (Matt W. Spencer)
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Editors (Was: Re: Beginners srand error)
Reply-To: ad327 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT Edu



>
>
>On Wed, 5 Jun 1996 halibut AT falcon DOT cc DOT ukans DOT edu wrote:
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>> Another question is to everyone: what is the best way to view
>> and edit all of your program files and still have access to dos
>> for the command line to make or run (aside from Rhide).
>
>Get a decent programmer's editor.  All of them allow to compile from 
>within the editor, catch the error messages and let you step through the 
>lines that triggered those messages.  They also let you shell to DOS if 
>you need temporarily to do some command-line work (like launch a program 
>that grabs the screen).

RHIDE is OK, but still a tad buggy IMHO.

>> the limitation of this is I can't save the changes easily. What is 
>> the best editor or editor of your choice to do this?
>
>I use Emacs.

I tried Emacs, but since I was so used to using MS-DOS Edit for quick-and-dirty
file edits from DOS, I found that I only used to to write programs, which
seemed kind of a waste to me. :) Usually, I either type up my source in Edit,
exit, compile, and run, or I use RHIDE.

Matt

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