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From: chaffee@reed.UUCP (Alex Chaffee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: THINK C Suggestions
Message-ID: <15524@reed.UUCP>
Date: 1 Oct 90 08:02:41 GMT
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Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <61078@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> huntley@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Haydn Huntley) writes:
>
>1) 	Have the arrow keys be customizable, or be like MacWrite's -- 
>	with option, shift, control, and command as modifiers to make
>	the cursor move by characters, words, line, page, or the
>	beginning or end.
>
>2)	Have PageUp, PageDn, DeleteRight, and shift-delete work.

I guess it's time for another advertisement:  I wrote an INIT called Kiss
that does all that, and then some.  Write me for a beta copy.  (I was hoping
to make it "release", whatever that means, but I was using it this weekend
and the cursor droppings came back...)

>4)	Add a command for assembler output, like the command-K
>	function for compile.

I like this idea.  MacsBug can disassemble to a file, but it requires major
editing to bring it back to real assembly code.

>6)	Show line numbers in the editor.  [...]

Or just give the line number in the link window, and provide a "jump to line
#" command.  Or let me do that - it'd be easy to do in Kiss, but there's no
reason for it now.

>8)	It would be convenient if the project would save the debugger's
>	settings whenever possible.  

Yes!  'Nuff said.

>9)	It would be really nice if Think C could really check to make sure
>	that the correct type of arguments were being passed to
>	library and toolbox functions.  [...]

Do you know about the MacProtos files?  Somebody typed in prototypes for all
the toolbox calls.  I think it's on sumex.  It adds a lot of time to the
compile, though, even when it's precompiled.

And my latest request:

	Allow us to "plug in" other editors, like Preditor with MPW.  That
	way, you can concentrate on improving the best compiler in the Mac
	world, and unshackle it from the worst editor.
	
>Thanks for making such a wonderful tool, and thanks for asking us for
>suggestions to make it even more wonderful!

Ditto.

>--Haydn

 - Alex
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Alex Chaffee
chaffee@reed.{UUCP,BITNET}
Reed College, Portland OR 97202
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