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From: "Arthur" <arfa AT clara DOT net>
To: "DJGPP Mailing List" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: DJGPP Source Editor
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 20:12:20 +0100
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> For anyone else having trouble with Rhide, try using DJGPPSE available at
> http://www.execpc.com/~gerasimo/.  It is a win95 editor and it worked the
> first time unlike Rhide.  I like Rhide, but it has some failures, one
major
> one is its inability to print the file that you are editing.

You what? DOS Prompt, then "type" the file piping it to LPT1. OK, it's
fiddly but it works.

>  I could never get Rhide to work, it could never locate my include files
and would
> not keep my project files.


Hmm... Have you tried setting up the environment settings - then saving
them?


>  So I have gone to DJGPPSE and so far it has worked great.
> The only draw back is that you can not use the tab key or you will exit
out
> of the editor window.


Ahhhhh! No tab key in a programming language!


>  Also, you can not create a shortcut, but must run it
> from the bin directory.


And I couldn't get it to compile any files not in the /bin directory,
either.

No, I had to delete it from my system before I went mad. The fact that I
doesn't even use windows(!?) but a form designed to be viewed at 640x480 is
simply inexcusible. Running the program at 800x600 leaves loads of wasted
grey space around the editing field. No colour coding, nasty interface, only
one file at a time.

And it took me two hours to download (but spread over three days using
GetRight it wasn't too bad).

Do yourself a favour and download DFE95. I use this for quick and easy
programming in Win95, and RHIDE for the heavy coding in DOS. OK, so DFE is
not perfect - no colour coding, and it can't use the more advanced features
of DJGPP - but you can print and you can view multiple files. And you can
resize the windows. And you can...

If DFE supported colour/case coded text (like RHIDE or Borland) on screen
and in print, I think it'd be near perfect.

James Arthur
jaa AT arfa DOT clara DOT net