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From: gurgle@well.sf.ca.us (Pete Gontier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: THINK C Suggestions
Message-ID: <20912@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 2 Oct 90 23:16:55 GMT
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In article <15524@reed.UUCP> chaffee@reed.UUCP (Alex Chaffee) writes:
>In article <61078@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> huntley@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Haydn Huntley) writes:
>>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.

What I do is double-click on the name of the offending function, hit command-E,
double-click on the name of the offending file, hit command-D, and then hit
command-A. If it's a link error, I hit the one I want right away.

>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.

Well, I hardly think it's the _worst_ editor. It's not TeachText... :-)

Seriously, though, I believe Preditor has some kind of IAC INIT which allows
it to transfer buffers into THINK and compile them. We have it around here,
but the docs are in Louisiana...

Regardless, I think this is a good idea. The editor should be completely
external, if only because of the possibilities it opens up to third parties.
(I'd like to see an editor that pretty-prints without leaving THINK. That
would be hot.)

>>Thanks for making such a wonderful tool, and thanks for asking us for
>>suggestions to make it even more wonderful!
>
>Ditto.

Ditto. This is beginning to sound like a Rush Limbaugh convention. :-)
-- 
 Pete Gontier, gurgle@well.sf.ca.us
 Software Imagineer, Kiwi Software, Inc.