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Subject: Nits about the development environment
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Date: Thu, 24-Sep-87 23:56:30 EDT
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1. DEBUGGERS: Is there any way of reinitializing the program in SID
without exiting and reentering (and destroying debugger state?) Like
the "run" command in dbx.  Speaking of the devil, does amiga have
source level debugging? When is atari's new debugger coming out?

2. EMACS: Who can tell me when ^y (yank) in micro-emacs will bring back
just the last thing deleted (per the emacs convensions) or a whole
bunch of other deletions which seem to be trying to make up for the
lack of a kill ring buffer, and is quite annoying. Sometimes, for
long streches of time, it just (corectly in my opinion) puts just the 
last thing, and sometimes, the whole kitchen sink gets plopped down
in the middle of what you are doing, without even setting the mark on
the other side! (Oh, I guess that was a flame!) Perhaps I'm suffering
from old version-itus? is it fixed in the latest? (oh please add word wrap!)

3. COMPILERS and LINKERS: Atari's new linker was a godsend. It takes
links with vdi & gem down from 2 min to 18 seconds (both with Supra
and much ramdisk). Bravo.  And filenames can have backslashes in them
too -- quality work!  Now, if the assembler in the latest version of
Alcyon (4.14) would only do what earlier versions could, namely put
temporary files on ramdisk. When I upgraded to 4.14 (I need its
improvements in structure support) the time to assemble trippled,
presumably due to the loss of ramdisk for temporaries.

If I sound like a speed freek, its because my world clock runs on
compile-load-go time periods. I have definately been jaded by the
SUN-3 that sits on my desk at work. Does Anybody know if the Light Speed C
people have any ST intensions? Will it run under magic sac?

			Allen King	aking bfly-vax.bbn.com ucbvax