From:	blp01 AT uow DOT edu DOT au (Brett Porter)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Bugs in RHide
Date:	Sun, 24 May 1998 01:46:52 GMT
Organization:	University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
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On Fri, 22 May 1998 22:22:53 GMT, sparhawk AT eunet DOT at (Gerhard Gruber)
wrote:

>If you enter clock_t and position the cursor on the statement then press
><CTRL>-F1 then the help for calloc comes up. 
>
>If you do the same for struct tm then the help jumps to time() instead of the
>expected struct tm.
>

This is because the search included in RHIDE is a "fuzzy" search that
finds the closest match (or set of matches) to the keyword selected.
Since tm and clock_t are not indexed in libc, RHIDE finds the closest
match. Try searching for help on a function associated with clock_t
(ie clock()), which should give a description of clock_t, or look in
its header file.

>If you mark a block then the block is immediately copied to the clipboard.
>When I have to delete larger blocks then I usually mark them and press DEL. If
>I marked a block previously with <CTRL>-Ins then the previous block is lost
>and the deleted block is inserted. I use non-persistent blocks.
>
This is because the DEL key is mapped as Cut by default, not clear. If
you need the old block back, open up the Edit menu and go to Show
Clipboard. To clear a block instead of cutting it to the clipboard,
use CTRL-DEL.

>I'm aware that these might not be bugs instead these problems might be because
>of other limitiations (like time). I can imagine that the struct tm "problem"
>might be just because nobody bothered or had the time to enter the information
>into the help file. I'm willing to do things like that when I encounter such
>things if somebody explains to me how I can do this. 
>And of course if there are people interested in that information in the help
>(as I can imagine). :)

Well, none of them are really bugs, or even limitations. I'm not sure
what can be done about the documentation because I imagine that they
are kept consistent with the GNU distributions, so DJGPP doesn't
really have the liberty to modify them to suit better searching in
RHIDE.

HTH
Brett
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