Thanks to David L. Dennis, I now have a MapBasic 6.0 language
definition file for UltraEdit and he's willing to share it. This
works as is for 5.5 too, with maybe a few extras you can snip off
if you like. Anyone who wants a copy just ask.

I also have a list of all keywords, functions, etc. for MapBasic
6.5 from Bill Wemple that could be turned into an UltraEdit
format pretty easily. That's available too. Just ask, and I'll
e-mail it to you.

A new twist came up on that compile technique I mentioned
yesterday. Apparently on fast machines, or with a slow compile,
or O/S > Win95, the MB compiler can't get the job done before the
next line on the batch file kicks in and types the *.err file to
the Output window in UE. If there are errors, they aren't
reported until the compiler's done, but by that time the batch
file is way ahead of it. Here's one example where multi-threading
isn't helping.

So... until I can figure out a way to delay execution of certain
lines in batch files, it's back to making 4 separate UltraEDit
user tools for compile, display errors, link, and run. Gotta go
dig in the Old Book of DOS to re-learn batch file commands...

What I'd really like to see is a proper makefile to build a whole
project and display errors as encountered, but the road to
programmers' nirvana is a long one... one step at a time!

- Bill Thoen
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