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- From: Eric C. Kofoid <kofoid@bioscience.utah.edu>
- Subject: Re: Subverting the Think C Editor
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 17:59:26 GMT
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- > neath@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Ian Neath) says:
- >> lind@ils.nwu.edu (Jeff Lind) asks:
- >>
- >> Well, perhaps I'm spoiled by having worked in MCL for a while now, but
- in
- >> playing with THINK C lately I've been consistently dissapointed off by
- the
- >> weak editor. It doesn't know anything about coding, really. I mean, it
- >> won't match parentheses, it hardly does any indentation, it has very
- few
- >> searching commands, it has no concept of a word or an expression, so
- you
- >> can't do nice things like control-rightarrow to skip an entire word or
- >> expression. It's basically teach-text.
- >>
- > Use CMaster from Jersey Scientific. Excellent, robust, and
- > inexpensive product. It adds all this and a lot more to
- > Think C editor so you get the best of both worlds: powerful
- > and integrated editing.
- >
- > Jersey Scientific
- > 545 Eighth Avenue 9th Floor
- > New York, NY 10018
- > voice (212) 736-0406
- > Compuserve: 70400,3361 (or 70400.3361@compuserve.com).
- >
- > I have no connection except a thoroughly satisfied customer.
- >
- >
- > --
- > Ian Neath | There are four kinds of people in this world:
- > neath@psych.purdue.edu | cretins, fools, morons and lunatics - U. Eco
-
-
- Two other possibilities, the first $25, the second lots more:
-
- 1. Alpha, by Pete Kehleher, available at your local archive. Pete
- includes
- instructions for using Alpha to bypass the defective THINK C editor.
- Unfortunately, it involves a couple of extra mousings per compile. Even
- more unfortunately, the trick won't work with THINK Pascal at all, which
- has the truly el supremo brain-dead editor of all time. This, of course,
- happens to be my language of choice!
-
- However, I have gleaned from the net that there are some QuickKey macros
- that may enable this transformation. I presume that this means Frontier
- should also be able to do it. Comments anyone?
-
- Alpha, by the way, is just about the way coolest shareware program ever
- distributed. If you use it, pay the fee. Pete has worked his butt off on
- this.
-
- 2. ObjectMaster, from Acius. This is a commercial product costing in the
- lower hundreds, exact amount depending on educational discountability. I
- just got the demo. The good news is that it does everything that you
- would
- ever want an editor to do and more, except regular expressions, a
- deficiency which puzzles me.
-
- The demo is crippled in several fundamental ways. Regexps may be one of
- them. The program itself seems to be rapidly evolving. It's already into
- version 2 and I think it's only been out for a year or so. It is
- especially
- worthwhile if you are considering using object extensions. The browsers
- blow THINK away.
-
- Somehow, OM integrates with THINK by taking over the entire
- project/edit/compile/build view. I haven't the foggiest idea how it's
- done, and I can't report on the efficiency with which it does much of
- this, as parsing, compiling and building are also crippled in the demo.
-
- More good news: OM works equally well with THINK C *and* Pascal and MPW
- C, C++, Pascal, Object Pascal and Modula 2!
-
- My conclusion is, if you can afford it, get both. Otherwise, get Alpha.
-
- ooo Dr. Cancer ooo
-
- "Being certain of the conclusion assists in finding the proof"
- Galileo, 17th century
-