Message-Id: <199710080454.OAA13479@rabble.uow.edu.au>
Subject: RHIDE suggestion
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com (DJGPP)
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 14:54:03 +1000 (EST)
From: Brett Porter <bporter AT rabble DOT uow DOT edu DOT au>
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Hi!

This is primarily for Robert and SET, but some others might like to
contribute to the ideas presented here.

RHIDE: Recently I have had a problem. My program sometimes crashes with a
SIGSEGV. Other times it hits an assertion or just an exit(). Sometimes I
debug and quit early.

What is the problem you ask? Well, I change the directory sometimes, and any
premature termination of the program means it doesn't go back to where it
came from, and my project files end up all over the shop. So I have to go
around deleting them or moving them if they are newer ones. There is no way
(I know of) to change the directory, because RHIDE goes back to where it
came from after a DOS shell. I have three ideas that might fix this.
	1. RHIDE keeps track of the directory of the project file, and always
	writes it there
	2. RHIDE changes back to the directory it was in when the program
started in after it is finished executing or ctrl-f2 is pressed or a signal
occurs.
	3. There is a menu command like in the Borland ide to change the
directory.

What do you think? Is there any reason not to implement one of these? I
particularly like the first one, but there are other reasons the second or
third options might be better.

Also, I heard $(EDITORS) mentioned around here. I can't find a list of
macros in the online help, is there one somewhere and specifically, is there
one that references all closed editors as well as open ones?

Now, to the editor...

The Borland IDE had an option for project notes. I just have a window open
called notes.txt (and a couple of other ones), that I jot notes into along
the way. But I didn't notice how annoying it is to do this when there is no
word wrap. Is there a possibility of implementing this for .txt files, or
just as an option?
I don't develop inside Win95 because I like to know when I did something bad
with a pointer, so I can't just flip into UltraEdit or something like that.

And a final note:

the cursor is still jumping around in RHIDE 1.4 I discovered (yes, I have
turned off optimal fill and use tabs for the time being).

Thanks again, hope you consider these suggestions,

Brett

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