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From: thurn@cis.ohio-state.edu (Martin 'Sulu' Thurn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: USEFUL advice about TP 5.5, please
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Date: 25 Jul 89 03:38:10 GMT
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OOP?  Who cares about a 70's comic strip cave man?  Not I!

Can some TurboPascal 5.5 "veterans" give us some _useful_ descriptions of
the new version?  Let the following be a guide for your discussion:

Can TP automatically save the pick file when we Run?
Are we still restricted to one editor window?
Are we still limited to 4 Ctrl-K # text position savers?
Does the debugger understand WITH statements, so we don't have to waste half
  our watch window with the name of the variable?
Is there a hot-key for Locate procedure/function symbol, so we don't have
  to type in the whole name?
If we accidentally press F9 instead of Ctrl-F9 while debugging, is TP smart
  enough to just say "no changes have been made" instead of trashing the 
  current debug session?
Is the "smart" display swapper _really_ smart enough to not flash the screen
  at us when we're just performing a simple assignment statement?
Can we, or can we not, cut and paste examples from help windows?
Can we display reserved words / strings / comments in different colors (like
  Quick Pascal's editor)?
Can we stop execution and drop to the debugger on the 99th iteration of a 
  loop without pushing Ctrl-F9 99 times?
Can we be sure that when we push Alt-F9 while editing an .INC file, 
  TP will remember which parent file to start compiling?

Resolution of these, among other, bugs would make the upgrade worthwhile
for me.  Don't get me wrong, I'm a loyal and satisfied TP user; I just 
think that Borland should repair what they've got before trying something new.

---Martin Thurn    thurn@cis.ohio-state.edu

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