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- From: dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
- Subject: Re: Comments on Turbo (Borland) Pascal 7.0?
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- Organization: Queen's University
- References: <1992Nov18.131557.7438@odin.diku.dk> <1992Nov18.174335.2758@exu.ericsson.se> <27741@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 13:34:21 GMT
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- In article <27741@oasys.dt.navy.mil> roth@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Pete Roth) writes:
- >
- >Okay, maybe the new IDE has a bunch of good stuff plugged in - I think
- >color coded code is cool..., and, alliterative.
- >But tokenized files should be an option that is not important.
- >Because frankly, the editor in the IDE is pretty puny.
- >Most of the time I put my programs together outside of the IDE with
- >decent tools. And most of us have reasonably quick machines now anyway,
- >nicht wahr? So where's the beef in a tokenized file?
-
- I've stopped doing much editing of TP source outside the IDE. Now that BP
- is here, I hardly even regret it :-). There are a few new additions to the
- IDE that make it good enough for general editing tasks, and really shine at
- editing source code:
-
- - debugging support (added in TP 5)
- - regular expressions (added in TP 6)
- - undo/redo
- - the symbol browser. This is great: you point at an object type,
- browse it and you can see all the fields and methods, and jump right to
- the source or declarations for them if you like. When you're done, if the
- cursor isn't where you wanted, just Alt-Backspace to undo a few times!
- - hooks to external tools, e.g. TD, GREP, TASM, TPROF, and those you add
- yourself: I've added my disassembler, so I can point at a procedure,
- hit Shift-F10, and see its disassembly. As I point at a line of the
- disassembly, the cursor follows the pointer in the source window. (Can't
- add your own tools in the Windows-hosted IDE. Boo! Hiss!)
-
- The main disadvantage to the IDE now is just that it's big, and slow to load.
-
- Duncan Murdoch
- dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca
-