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 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