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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DME Executing make, is it possible?
Message-ID: <8802290540.AA21325@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 29 Feb 88 05:40:49 GMT
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: I wanted to rebuild my applications by just hitting a function key in
:dme (version 1.29). So I mapped f3 to (execute (make >ram:result)), but
:it doesn't work: dme gurus somewhere along the way, or just sits there
:dead once the compiler and linker are done. BTW the compiler,assembler,linker
:and make are all Aztec 3.4b versions.
:
: So what gives? Is it possible for these tools to work together?
:

	Did you run DME from the workbench or the CLI?  DME simply
calls Execute() to implement execute, and that doesn't work if DME was
started up from the workbench.

: 
: While I'm at it I'll air my latest "feature" craving for dme:
:
:	When DME iconifies a window, I'd like to have the "icon"
:    be visibly different (different color?) when a file has been 
:    modified, but not saved yet!
:

	Probably won't happen, unless you can suggest an easy way to do
it.  The 'icon' is just a title-bar-high window.

: And also the last bug I've found: The modify flag (m) is only updated
:once you move the cursor. So you canmodify your file, hit your nifty
:save-only-when-modified-and-then-exit command, and dme will exit
:without saving your mods (annoying!).
:-- 

	This is a feature.  The bug is in the IF and QUIT commands.  The
feature allows you to fix a line you accidently typed something in while
the file is still unmodified, and have it still say it's unmodified when
you finally cursor off the (fixed) line.  It would be trivial for me to
add a 'line restore' to take even further advantage of this, I suppose.

					-Matt