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From: becap@cs.mcgill.ca (Brian CAPSON)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Windows C Editor (Windows Programmer's Workbench)
Message-ID: <1991Mar23.204346.9928@cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 23 Mar 91 20:43:46 GMT
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Hey All;

I've been reading with interest all of the talk about a good C editor
for the Windows Environment. When I began programming for windows about
6 months ago, I too was bothered by having to switch to a DOS based
editor to write windows code. I decided to do something about it, and am
now about half way through writing a "Programmer's Workbench" for
Windows. Here are the specs:

- multiple document interface
- notion of a "project" so that you can open and save all of your files
  on demand
- context sensitive links to the windows SDK on=line reference
- pushbutton links to all the tools of the SDK
- links to the Microsoft C compiler: will let you compile your code from
  within windows, then will open a window with the results of the
  compilation, highlighting the lines in the file where errors have been
  reported.
- standard editor features (search and replace, etc.)
- C programming features (goto a line, autoindenting (hopefully))

Right now I'm stil using the multiple line edit class for my editor,
which is easy, but severely limits some of the functionality. There are
probably a few more features that I'll add, but I can't think of them
right now. If anyone has some suggestions or comments for features/
changes or additions, feel free to post them or mail them to me.

- Brian Capson
  becap@bart.cs.mcgill.ca
  McGill University School of Computer Science
  Montreal, Quebec, CANADA