From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: RHIDE window switching oddity
Date: 7 Mar 1997 08:33:44 GMT
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Robert Hoehne (Robert DOT Hoehne AT Mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de) writes:
> Paul Derbyshire wrote:
>> 
>> Sometimes if I hit F6 or shift-F6, RHIDE suddenly gets it into its head to
> 
> Pleas can you reproduce this, because I can't imagine this (never
> happened
> for me or reported by others).

I hit F6, and instead of it just switching editor windows, it switches
editor windows and then a dialog pops up saying "checking blah.o", it goes
through various .o files, and then it starts compiling something. It acts
like I hit Make, or hit Run with an out of date source file.

> Or do you have some special keyboard driver, which can be the reason
> for this.

Nope.

>> recompile my program! And, if I hit ^C to interrupt it, it seems to take
>> as long as a minute or two to "register" that ^C was hit. (At least ^C
> 
> That's DJGPP related, since DJGPP is known, to be not the best
> environment
> for signal handling.
> 
>> doesn't sometimes hang the PC like it did under DJGPP v1!)
> 
> Does this mean, that you want that your PC hangs when you press
> ^C??

No, I'd prefer it to abort the operation straight away...

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