From: peter AT agnes DOT dida DOT physik DOT NO-SPAM-PLEASE DOT de (Peter Gerwinski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Pascal support in RHIDE
Date: 12 Jul 1997 22:43:22 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen, Germany
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Summary: An idea how to optimize Pascal support in RHIDE
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Hallo Robert,
hello everybody!

This is an idea how to optimize Pascal support in RHIDE.

Pascal projects usually don't need a Makefile.  The compiler can look
up all dependencies from the source.  For this reason, the knowledge
of a single file name can replace the whole project in many cases.

It would significantly simplify the use of RHIDE with Pascal if RHIDE
would treat the presence of a "primary file" (introduced for Pascal
anyway;-) like an open project containing exactly this file.
(Currently, I must explicitly open a project, specify the "primary
file" and "add" the same file.)

In addition, if neither a project is open nor a "primary file" is
present, RHIDE could treat the current editor file (of course, only
if it is a Pascal source) as the "primary file".  This would mean
that "make" (F9) would be enabled (and invoke `gpc --automake') and
"run" would call "make" and then run the program.

(I hope that the above is not too confusing ... if it is, please ask.:-)

However, thanks for the good work!  I expect to spend many working
days in the coming years with RHIDE - with DJGPP and with Linux.

Greetings,

    Peter

 Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer
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