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From: "S. M. Halloran" <mitch AT duzen DOT com DOT tr>
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 11:05:04 +0200
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Subject: Re: Is RHIDE a good environment to use?
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On 21 Jan 98, Joshua Heyer was found to have commented thusly:

> Alan Wilson wrote:
> 
[....]
> >
> > Is RHIDE virtually bug free now?
> 
>   Not unless there's a version later than 4.1 which stabilizes it. 
>   Mostly
> for me its the debugger, & that might be my fault.

The version is 1.4 and I think the version dated '30 Sep 97' is the 
latest.  While I believe that RHide is far from "bug free", it is 
nonetheless quite usuable and I don't think that the bugs in RHide 
will cause any fatal errors/crashes.  I think Mr. Hoehne would 
concur.

I have commented previously on what I believe to be bugs in 
RHide (e.g., the integrated editor, not written by R. Hoehne but 
rather written by SET, often loses track of where the cursor is 
and where characters are entered in the window, but the bug is not 
fatal).

I try to distinguish bugs from missing features;  I consider 
missing features to be features present in Borland's IDE that are at 
variance with features in RHide or features not present in RHide. 
In that category the list is long: for example, in a window 
resize/move condition, only the arrow keys can be used to resize a 
window (in Borland IDE, you can use PAGE DOWN and PAGE UP to open the 
window quickly rather than just using arrow keys).  I will add 
following that last comment that I prefer a programming interface 
with is largely keyboard- and not very much mouse-dependent.  I know 
that you can resize a window quickly if you grab the mouse and yank 
on the corner, but I think most programmers would rather not touch 
the mouse at all when dealing with windows and menu manipulation.  
The EMACS users probably deplore the notion of a mouse altogether. :)

Mitch Halloran
Research (Bio)chemist
Duzen Laboratories Group
Ankara   TURKEY
mitch AT duzen DOT com DOT tr

other job title:  Sequoia's (dob 12-20-95) daddy