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From: weyand@csli.Stanford.EDU (Chris Weyand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Two suggestions for THINK C
Message-ID: <14705@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 29 Jul 90 09:42:46 GMT
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Sender: weyand@csli.Stanford.EDU (Chris Weyand)
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In <4930@pegasus.ATT.COM> eby@pegasus.ATT.COM (Robert P. Eby) writes:

>A favorite hobby of people here in comp.sys.mac.programmer seems to be
>making suggestions for improvements to THINK C.  Here are two things I would
>like to see: 

>1) When doing text selection in the editor, TC should use the user's
>selected highlight color on a color monitor (rather than white on black,

That would be nice!

>2) There ought to be a "Cancel" or "Stop Compiling" button on the
>compilation dialog.  Many's the time that I've hit propeller-R and THEN
>remembered that I needed to update the .rsrc file (for example).  I can't
>imagine that this should be hard either (it could finish compiling the
>"current file" before it stopped).


Try command-period.  It works very well.



Chris Weyand
weyand@csli.Stanford.edu