Subject:	Re: Programmers' editor
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJ's GPP mailing list)
Date:	Mon, 8 Feb 93 9:34:49 EST
From:	Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT ecolan DOT sbs DOT ohio-state DOT edu>
Cc:	sperber AT soir DOT informatik DOT uni-tuebingen DOT de

I thank Michael Sperber for his advice.
    I began using DEmacs and DesqView/X at the same time.  Since
DEmacs with its original GO32 (v1.05, I think) crashed DV, and I found
DV over plain 4DOS more useful than DEmacs over MG, I never learned
how to use DEmacs's facilities properly.  Once I had a GO32 which was
compatible with DV/X (needed 1.09, so that comms would work with
DEmacs in the background!), I continued using DV/X to switch tasks.
Maybe it's worth looking into again (especially for use with AUC-TeX).
    Perhaps it was a bit hasty, but I stand by my statement that
things that don't work seamlessly, or at least the kludge is
documented, "suck."  While it doesn't take much (getting the
subprocess to return an exit code of 0), if it's not documented "I
think it's too painful," in the words of DEmacs's creator.  Of course,
in the larger scheme of things (the 99.9% of DEmacs that does work
seamlessly, at least for me), this is a very minor pain!
    Does anyone know if any subprocess functions besides `shell-to-DOS'
and `compile' work properly (eg, the AUC-TeX `TeX-region' function)?
-- 
 
Stephen Turnbull
The Ohio State University, Department of Economics
410 Arps Hall, 1945 N. High St., Columbus, OH  43210-1172  USA
Phone: (614) 292-0654  Fax: ...-3906  Email: turnbull DOT 1 AT osu DOT edu

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