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As a reply to Thomas:

All we're talking about here is having your makefile skeleton to which
you add your sources.  It wouldn't be hard to write something to
automate this - heck, a wordprocessing macro would probably do the
trick - but I wonder how much time you would save over just cutting
and pasting...

Copy-paste as actually OK, and nowtime that's what I do. With such macro it
would look a little more pretty, and I'll find out how to wright macros.
And, of cause, I want this macro to add the sources to the makefile and
build the dependancies, not me.

> It seems like ME can compile files and catch errors information almost
> out-of-box. It can also build projects by calling make from itself (if I
> write appropriate makefile). I'm still unsure about debugging (most
probably
> it can't debug within itself, but it can call some external debugger) and
> .info helpfiles reading.

I think you're missing the point.  The kind of functionality you are
describing is also provided by a variety of programs, including vide,
code-genie, the windows versions of emacs and vim, and many others.
The problem is that these programs typically don't interact well with
DJGPP, because it is a DOS program - i.e., they choke when you call
DJGPP's make.exe or gcc.exe.  They work fine when using windows
versions of these programs (e.g., minGW's versions), but not with the
DOS versions.  Have you actually tried compiling programs using DJGPP
from within MultiEdit?  I'm not saying it can't, but I would find it
slightly surprising unless it was designed with that in mind.

Well I did compiled programs this way, it does work. But I think I'm really
missing something: what is the difference betveen calling DOS program and
catching and parsing it's output and calling Win program? Does it require
different programming technique to do this calls?

> Generally speakink, I enjoy using it a lot. The
> only upsetting thing about it that I've discovered so far - it costs
~$200.

There's a certain irony in spending $200 on an editor in order to use
a free compiler, but it's your money.

I agree. I'm playing with evo copy, but I don't think I'll buy it unless I
discover something outstending.

Thanks.
Anthony.

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