From: afn03257 AT afn DOT org Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 10:19:28 -0500 Message-Id: <199701151519.KAA21923@freenet2.freenet.ufl.edu> To: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: RHIDE -- joy of my life :) Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Lines: 39 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >On 14 Jan 1997, Daniel P Hudson wrote: >> Here is a possible idea, to help users integrate other langauges into >> your IDE though. Some form of scripting langauge for a description >> file should be allowed which would allow the user to specify file >> extensions, compiler/interpreter, and syntax form for highlighting. >> Users could then have an ide for various products both from and not >> from DJGPP. The less technically inclined woudl have to use others >> files, but still, that would be a nice idea, although, no simple task, >IMHO, this will make RHIDE another (albeit different) Emacs, in which >case you might go for Emacs right now, since it already has that I've used EMACS and while its nice, its too damn big, and IMHO, not worth the storage space required. >Also, experience shows that a tool which is too powerful and flexible >(such as Emacs) tends to spook newbies which then remember their trauma >long after they know enough to use that tool. Striking a balance You want to spook newbies, make em use vi. ;-) Your right, well sort of. I mean the feature was meant to be seperate, not actually part of RHIDE. Sort of a seperate editor to set up RHIDE in which ou could warn them of this. I just thought it might make using it as a multi-land IDE easier once it was done. So far he has GCC, G++, and GPC, but what about Perl, gawk, sed, M-2, g77, etc.? They will eventually be ported if they aren't akready. sed, gawk, and perl I know are already. >features and complexity you pay for having them is a very delicate and >difficult task, and an IDE which is meant to be used by novices should >IMHO restrain from adding too much features. Agreed, of course, he could build support in for it and then distribute the set-up tools seperately and not mention them in the docs. that way you sort of have to talk to others to figure out what you need and whether it is for you or not.