Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/01/22/04:07:34
On 21 Jan 98, Joshua Heyer was found to have commented thusly:
> Alan Wilson wrote:
>
[....]
> >
> > Is RHIDE virtually bug free now?
>
> Not unless there's a version later than 4.1 which stabilizes it.
> Mostly
> for me its the debugger, & that might be my fault.
The version is 1.4 and I think the version dated '30 Sep 97' is the
latest. While I believe that RHide is far from "bug free", it is
nonetheless quite usuable and I don't think that the bugs in RHide
will cause any fatal errors/crashes. I think Mr. Hoehne would
concur.
I have commented previously on what I believe to be bugs in
RHide (e.g., the integrated editor, not written by R. Hoehne but
rather written by SET, often loses track of where the cursor is
and where characters are entered in the window, but the bug is not
fatal).
I try to distinguish bugs from missing features; I consider
missing features to be features present in Borland's IDE that are at
variance with features in RHide or features not present in RHide.
In that category the list is long: for example, in a window
resize/move condition, only the arrow keys can be used to resize a
window (in Borland IDE, you can use PAGE DOWN and PAGE UP to open the
window quickly rather than just using arrow keys). I will add
following that last comment that I prefer a programming interface
with is largely keyboard- and not very much mouse-dependent. I know
that you can resize a window quickly if you grab the mouse and yank
on the corner, but I think most programmers would rather not touch
the mouse at all when dealing with windows and menu manipulation.
The EMACS users probably deplore the notion of a mouse altogether. :)
Mitch Halloran
Research (Bio)chemist
Duzen Laboratories Group
Ankara TURKEY
mitch AT duzen DOT com DOT tr
other job title: Sequoia's (dob 12-20-95) daddy
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