Ken:
You know, it'd really be cool if you'd capture what you did on the
screen to do development in a video and post it. I think there's some
really nice video capture software available. I can't tell you how much
that would be useful.
Bill
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Ken Ford said the following on 12/7/2010 3:35 PM:
Hello fellow U2-groupies.
There has been recent discussion on useful tools for editing and/or
compiling/testing U2 software.
I am a 28 year user of Universe and its predecessors (including Prime Information and Pick
flavours), and during most of that time a user of Emacs (on several platforms, including Windows
and Linux). Over that time I have build a library of tools that aid the areas under discussion. If
you look at the following link, you will file links to some of them under "BasicSource"
and "EmacsLisp". In my humble opinion, Emacs is still the tool of choice (and XEmacs for
that matter) for most software development. The link to the main page is:
http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SourceCode
With the tools I have written (which have been further developed since I
uploaded them), you can do things like:
1. Work on Basic source, Paragraphs, multiple records in files at once, select
lists of records, dictionary items - colourised for clarity.
2. Display/edit multivalued fields in records, with multivalues listed and
numbered one per line.
3. (With Emacs standared features) edit code in one part of a window, and
compile and run/debug code in another part, create macros to do repetitive
tasks that involve both shell windows and coding windows, search/replace using
full regular expression funcitionality.
There are so many features available, if you care to undertake the easy
learning curve to using it. To get the full benefit, you will need to use a
windows-like version of emacs, like Unix X (my choice), MS Windows, or Linux.
I hope someone finds this useful. I am open to questions.
Regards,
Ken Ford,
Brisbane, QLD,
Australia.
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