To: James N Hormuzdiar <jimh AT minerva DOT cis DOT yale DOT edu>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Hi all
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 13:39:15 EDT
From: David Goldschmidt <gold AT ccr-p DOT ida DOT org>

>>>>> "James" == James N Hormuzdiar <jimh AT minerva DOT cis DOT yale DOT edu> writes:

    James> Hello all!  Well, I finally got around to installing djgpp and have
    James> great hope for it.  As with all new software, however, I am having
    James> trouble getting started.  I have read a couple faq lists, but all
    James> is still not clear, so hopefully, someone here can be of
    James> assistance.

    James> 	First of all, what do most people use as an editor?  I suppose I
    James> could use edit or any word processor, but it is exhausting exiting
    James> the program every time I need to compile.  When there is an error,
    James> I have to reenter the program and count the number of lines down to
    James> find it, then try to remember exactly what it was.  There has to be
    James> a better way.

I use Brief, an emacs-like DOS programming editor.  It's easy to configure so
that it runs gcc in a sub-shell.  It reads the error output and positions the
cursor correctly.  I suspect that almost any progamming editor will do this.
There are several freeware ports of EMACS around, for example.