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- From: chard@borland.com (Richard Nelson)
- Subject: Re: Funny (?) DOS IDE editor window chars
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.230808.15707@borland.com>
- Originator: chard@genghis.borland.com
- Sender: news@borland.com (News Admin)
- Organization: Borland International
- References: <28563@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 23:08:08 GMT
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- >I've noticed that when I reload a file that's already been "made" that
- >the editor window occasionally posts an "M" next to the spot
- >where the "file has been changed" symbol appears (lower left corner
- >of the window). I haven't found anything in the K's of doc pages that
- >might give me a clue to this behavior.
- >
- >Are there other characters that can appear?
- >Where do the docs reference these things ?
- >What are they characters telling me ?
-
- Hmmm. This seems to have snuck by the doc team. :-) I just talked
- to an IDE engineer, and he tells me the following:
-
- o The M character indicates that there is symbol information
- available to the browser, but that information is not in sync with the
- editor file. In other words, something changed the editor file after
- you compiled it last, and it wasn't the IDE editor.
-
- o The most common cause of this is shelling out to an editor or other
- program that modifies source code. The internal editor updates line
- number info for existing symbol information as you modify files, but
- obviously it can't do that if you use an external editor.
-
- o There are no other symbols that appear down there, other than the
- "splat" that indicates a modified file with unsaved changes.
- --
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