From:	ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: RHIDE: recall last help
Date:	27 Jul 1997 05:36:13 GMT
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Peter Steiner (p DOT steiner AT t-online DOT de) writes:
> Hello,
> 
> Here is a little suggestion to improve RHIDE. In Borland-C the last help can
> be recalled by pressing Alt-F1. In RHIDE this feature is limited, because
> after closing the help the history is discarded.  It would be nice if this
> could be improved in one of the next releases. Especially because this
> feature is almost implemented. When switching the help to the background
> instead of closing it recall is still possible but it´s not that handy.

Also, help has ^U to go up a node, but this isn't always the same as
previously-visited node. I.e., you can go sideways from printf to scanf,
but ^U from scanf goes to alphabetical index, so it'd be nice to have a
key to return to printf in that case. It ought to remember perhaps twenty
o thirty previous locations, and keep the memory after a close and reopen.
(COnsidering these history entries need be only pointers, and DJGPP allows
huge gobs of memory to be allocated, and everyone has 8 megs nowadays, or
more, there can't be a memory problem even remembering the last 8000 nodes!)
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Paul Derbyshire ao950 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca, http://chat.carleton.ca/~pderbysh

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