Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!earleh From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Debuggers Message-ID: <14415@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 14 Jul 89 17:50:30 GMT References: <33136@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Reply-To: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) Distribution: comp Organization: Thayer School of Engineering Lines: 31 In article <33136@apple.Apple.COM> keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes: >Yeah, don't use MPW for the things you list above. MPW is not what you >would consider reasonably fast (unless you are comparing against an >Apple II). Neither can you simply swap in your own editor. Many of >the functions necessary for using MPW are integrated into the editor. >Or rather, the editor is integrated into the shell. Whatever. There is probably no reason you cannot use any editor as your primary source code editor while developing programs under the MPW Shell. I find it fairly simple to swap in my own editor; there are a number of techniques for doing this. I would suggest clicking the mouse in one of its windows as the best technique. You do need 2 Meg and to use MultiFinder, however. I have used Microemacs consistently with MPW Shell for a year now. I find it much more suitable for writing C code than the Shell's built in editor. >What MPW does offer you is power. It also gives some of the best code >generation available on the Mac (once you overlook the code generation >bugs in the C compiler). Finally, it gives you the ability to expand >with either your own tools, or ones that you've aquired elsewhere. Don't forget that you can use third party compilers with MPW! If you don't like the code generation bugs in the MPW C compiler, then you can put up with those in the Aztec C compiler! If you don't like the code generation bugs in the MPW Pascal compiler, then try the TML Pascal compiler! Earle R. Horton "People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it." Salada Tag Lines