At 11:49 �� 10/4/2002, you wrote: >At 01:11 AM 4/11/2002 +0100, you wrote: >>On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Phoebus Dokos wrote: >> >> > I suggested to Dave to start off with MicroEmacs as since he's been using >> > Linux he would be a known environment.... (QD is FAR EASIER TO WORK WITH >> > than MicroEmacs :-) >> >>If it's anything like emacs, I'll pass... I'm a pico person :o) > >MicroEmacs is really nothing like Emacs. The version done by Thierry has >menus so that the command keystrokes really don't need to be >memorized. The problem with MicroEmacs is that it can be a bit slow on a >Gold Card QL (which is what I am currently using). A simpler editor is >QED, which is a clone of Metacomco's ED. QED is fast, small, and fairly >easy to use. It even allows for simple macros. MicroEmacs has a full >macro language (with conditional statements and loops), plus it can >execute other programs.
True although I always found the menus in MicroEmacs to be more confusing than helpful! As for it's Macro language it's indeed one of its best features :-) >As for programming, if you are using SuperBasic, I might suggest looking >into Structured SuperBasic. It's a S*Basic preprocess and filter. It >allows SB code to look like C or Pascal with spaces and no line >numbers. It also allows preprocess command like "conditional >compilation", just the C preprocessor does. It's free and <plug> I wrote >it. You can use MicroEmacs and use a macro that will save the file and >execute Structured SuperBasic, and then call Qliberator (working on a >Turbo compatible version). So, you can do all of the compiling process >without leaving MicroEmacs. SSB by Tim is really great... Fired up by some old QL magazines etc. Tim sent me, I plan on working on it to make it Turbo compatible myself when I finish Q-Word and advance my GUI project a little :-) Probably during my vacation :-) (Yep with a notebook by the beach :-)) Now that's hard core QLing folks :-) >BTW, On my web page (www.geocities.com/svenqhj/) is my "SuperBasic Source >Book" that covers some details about using Qlib, plus a bunch about >freeware tools for SB programming. It's a few years old, you might find >it usefull. I cover a number of freeware toolkits available (and possibly >some commercial, but I can't remember). SSB is also on my web page. Definitely a must-read :-) Tim is extremely talented in making even the most complex subjects easy to understand... Must be his army (or was that airforce?) training :-) (One can NEVER imagine what he'll see in the Army hehehehehe - Been there done that :-) Also Rich Mellor's SuperBasic/QDOS Manual is EXTREMELY well done... Only seen portions of it... I still haven't gotten around to contact Al Boehm and get a copy :-(((( Phoebus
