From: "Fábio Diales da Rocha" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: RHIDE - compliments and complaints Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 01:17:41 -0000 Lines: 35 Message-ID: <67790n$372$1@duke.telepac.pt> NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.65.180.55 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk RHIDE is a great IDE, and, although it isn't quite as integrated with djgpp as you would expect a IDE designed by the same persons that designed the compiler, it's almost there. The debugger is particulary efficient, feeling like a built-in to the compiler. The help system is the best you could possibily expect since it has to search the info files. Despite that there are 3 "undocumented features" that I find quite unpleasant: 1. It refuses to compile "cpp" files, only accepting "cc" ones although gcc does fine with "cpp" files 2. Its complete inability to find files in the current directory, forcing you to add it to the search directories. And, NO, i don't like projects, they're perfectly supportable if you're actually coding something, but if you want just to browse through some source files they're completly insupportable. 3. And last, but certanly not least - it takes an unnecessary ammount of time to compile because it spends half the time writting and reading something to disk. Example: if just try to run grep (i don't have it) it takes about 15 seconds before a simple "Bad command or file name". This is extremelly annoying. Believe it or not i've read a book in the interims rhide takes to call gcc twice. That and some minor inconcistences on the keyboard mapping and the intelligent identing (remember, you can identify a programmer by the way he idents is code, so very obtrusive intelligent identing is very irritating) stop RHIDE from being the perfect IDE. I hope these glitches will be fixed by the next version and please tell me if some of the "bugs" I mencioned are in fact something I'm doing wrong. Fábio Diales da Rocha