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From: ergo@netcom.COM (Isaac Rabinovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows C Editor (Windows Programmer's Workbench)
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.204905.10342@netcom.COM>
Date: 26 Mar 91 20:49:05 GMT
References: <1991Mar23.204346.9928@cs.mcgill.ca>
Organization: UESPA
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In <1991Mar23.204346.9928@cs.mcgill.ca> becap@cs.mcgill.ca (Brian CAPSON) writes:


>... and am
>now about half way through writing a "Programmer's Workbench" for
>Windows. Here are the specs:

>- multiple document interface
I hate MDI programs.  One can get the same functionality by
implementing multiple windows for a program instance, or by allowing
different instances of a program to cooperate.  The only thing MDI
adds is a little extra complication when you're switching windows.
>- notion of a "project" so that you can open and save all of your files
>  on demand
Good idea.  Will you automatically add include files to a project?
>- 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.
I'd rather have this kind of stuff not be hard-wired to a particular
package, though perhaps that kind of generality is beyond the scope of
your product.
>- standard editor features (search and replace, etc.)
Do you consider regular expressions "standard"?  If so, it'd be nice
to have user-defined metacharacters.
>- C programming features (goto a line, autoindenting (hopefully))
What's so hard about autoindenting?  Perhaps you think it has to be
syntax-directed, but we can make do with vi-style (reproduce preceding
line's indent).

But what every programmer really needs is a tags feature.

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