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 Organization: Telekom Online Internet Gateway Lines: 33 Message-ID: <5rgc0u$8ib$6@news00.btx.dtag.de> References: <5rdl2n$bmh$3 AT news02 DOT btx DOT dtag DOT de> <5remod$4an AT freenet-news DOT carleton DOT ca> Reply-To: p DOT steiner AT t-online DOT de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk On 27 Jul 1997 05:36:13 GMT, Paul Derbyshire 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 itīs 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 -- _ x ___ / \_/_\_ /,--' p DOT steiner AT t-online DOT de (Peter Steiner) \/>'~~~~// \_____/ signature V0.2 alpha