X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: "Anthony" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: About ME Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 10:06:53 +0300 Organization: Radio-MSU NOC, Moscow State University Lines: 50 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: integra.rmt.ru X-Trace: alpha2.radio-msu.net 1078124816 37033 81.13.30.150 (1 Mar 2004 07:06:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT radio-msu DOT net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 07:06:56 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com As a reply to Thomas: All we're talking about here is having your makefile skeleton to which you add your sources. It wouldn't be hard to write something to automate this - heck, a wordprocessing macro would probably do the trick - but I wonder how much time you would save over just cutting and pasting... Copy-paste as actually OK, and nowtime that's what I do. With such macro it would look a little more pretty, and I'll find out how to wright macros. And, of cause, I want this macro to add the sources to the makefile and build the dependancies, not me. > It seems like ME can compile files and catch errors information almost > out-of-box. It can also build projects by calling make from itself (if I > write appropriate makefile). I'm still unsure about debugging (most probably > it can't debug within itself, but it can call some external debugger) and > .info helpfiles reading. I think you're missing the point. The kind of functionality you are describing is also provided by a variety of programs, including vide, code-genie, the windows versions of emacs and vim, and many others. The problem is that these programs typically don't interact well with DJGPP, because it is a DOS program - i.e., they choke when you call DJGPP's make.exe or gcc.exe. They work fine when using windows versions of these programs (e.g., minGW's versions), but not with the DOS versions. Have you actually tried compiling programs using DJGPP from within MultiEdit? I'm not saying it can't, but I would find it slightly surprising unless it was designed with that in mind. Well I did compiled programs this way, it does work. But I think I'm really missing something: what is the difference betveen calling DOS program and catching and parsing it's output and calling Win program? Does it require different programming technique to do this calls? > Generally speakink, I enjoy using it a lot. The > only upsetting thing about it that I've discovered so far - it costs ~$200. There's a certain irony in spending $200 on an editor in order to use a free compiler, but it's your money. I agree. I'm playing with evo copy, but I don't think I'll buy it unless I discover something outstending. Thanks. Anthony.