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From: dubose_b@wums.wustl.edu (Bob DuBose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Microsoft C 6.0 - Documentation format
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Date: 2 May 90 15:34:37 GMT
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In article <1990Apr27.115023.3401@watserv1.waterloo.edu>,
tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) writes:

> Sounds like you have to use their editor for this.  Do they provide specs so
> you can write your own vi macros?  :)  If using the integrated environment is
> the only way to get online help, I'll definitely have to get the book.

Unfortunately, for now the only _seamless_ way to have point-and-shoot
access to the online help is from the editor.  The editor is a rewrite of
the "M" editor supplied w/ C 5.1 and other languages, bound into the PWB. 
There's been a lot of complaints on the docs both for the RTL and PWB.  MS
does show a few examples on how to write extensions to the editor, but it
can take some digging around to find them.  You can replace it with your
own (like brief), but lose the instant quick-help access.  QH is available
from the command line (QH [object]), but to access it from something like
brief you'd have to write your own macro to load it manually.

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Bob DuBose                           dubose_b@wums.wustl.edu
Department of Genetics                    bdb@agar.wustl.edu
Washington University in St. Louis
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