Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/08/11/10:48:33
Klaas wrote:
>
> Chris Holmes wrote:
> >
> > Klaas wrote:
> > >
> > > How is the debugging?
> >
> > As good as you are. I can't stand IDE's. They're big, nasty, slow,
> > and won't tell you as much as a good compiler. But that's just my
> > opinion.
>
> Big? Not necessarily. Slow? What do you use, an 86? Nasty? I like
> being able to compile and link my five-part program in seconds using
> "Alt-r, r" in rhide...
Sorry everyone, this will be my last post along this line but I think
this one will have some relation to the newsgroup.
A combination of dos and Qedit (or some other powerful text editor)
and the use of batch files makes up for an IDE. If you have an older
copy of Turbo C++, it had a program called thelp that would load as a
TSR and had a list and very GOOD descriptions of every standard C
function that existed at the time.
Admittidly, Qedit has some problems, namely that it destroys long
filenames (bad for Java), but, my batch files make ample use of the move
command to repair the names. It looks very impressive to even other
programmers to watch you pull up source code in a nice friendly blue
background environment, press + to mark a line of text, move down,
press * several times to duplicate it, edit, save, and type "g" (what
I name my compilation batch files) and watch several lines of renamings,
compilings, greppings, etc. etc.
Batch files rule.
Chris
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